My Daddy, A Soldier - Softcover

Phelps, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438975694 ISBN 13: 9781438975696

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2009

Synopsis

MY DADDY, A SOLDIER is a story about an expressive young child as she sees her father suddenly going off to WAR. Her experiences of how she calculates time completely explains the fathers' military and personal gear as he is packing for the long journey. How she processes his skills as a soldier through her thoughts at this tender young age expressing emotions, feelings, fears, and dreams reflecting on the past, present and future. Explaining how she engages in a father, daughter relationship through activities, memories, and pictures that prove to be a tremendous bonding for life even with the separation and until the fathers return.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth E. Phelps grew up in New Castle, Indiana and always surrounded by children. She later graduated from Indiana University. Her lifetime career was working with families and children. She is now retired after many years of Social Work, yet now substitute teaches for Elementary age children. She has experienced several years of hosting foreign exchange students, and found this to be challenging. She is a mother and grandmother of one son and granddaughter to whom she dedicates this book. She was inspired to write children's illustrated literature because of her young granddaughter experiencing the transition of her father serving in the military for a second tour of duty in Iraq. While leaving behind his young daughter and watching her emotions and reactions at this time, she was stimulated by observing other children's skills in writing, reading, drawing, as well as other activities in her teaching position.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438975694
• ISBN 13: 9781438975696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100