Nicholas Buamah, 8, was celebrated by Whoopi Goldberg on an episode of The View this month.

Goldberg acknowledged Buamah for Black History Month, saying the second-grade author recently had his animated book, Kayla & Kyle The Walking Dictionaries: Election Day, added to the Library of Congress catalog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGPgugbcu8

In December 2018, the boy's mother, Danielle Buamah, spoke to Black Enterpise about the book, which was created to help build the vocabularies of elementary school children.

“I developed the character of Kayla when Nicholas was younger to help teach him expanded vocabulary,” she said. “After being praised by his first-grade teacher for using the word ‘collaborate’ during his first week of school, I asked Nicholas what he thought about writing a book to help his friends expand their vocabularies. He thought it was a great idea, as long as one of the main characters could be a male figure, and that’s when he created Kyle.”

https://twitter.com/NicholasBuamah/status/1095145795664445440

In the book, twins Kayla and Kyle engage in a debate as they both campaign to be class president of their school. Nicholas is working on a second book in the series, which will be released this summer.

The 8-year-old has dreams of the book being available in every classroom in the country. He also would like to study mechanical engineering at MIT.

Kayla & Kyle The Walking Dictionaries: Election Day can be purchased through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.