Laughing Through The Alphabet

Laughing Through the Alphabet is a fun book for children. Younger children will have fun learning the alphabet as they associate the letters with the colorful animals. Younger and older children will enjoy the illustrations and the jokes. The illustrations were drawn by Nathan, the author's nine year old grandson. The jokes evolved from a game which Captain Mike and his grandson played in which Nathan had to draw a picture for every letter of the alphabet, and Grandpa had to tell a joke that included the animal Nathan drew. The game was a tie. They both made it all the way through the alphabet! This book is recommended for children 3-12.

Michael R. Daciek, born in Bartley, West Virginia has lived in eleven states and two foreign countries. His overlapping careers as a commercial airline and military pilot, coupled with his large family, five children and 9 grandchildren, provide him with the experiences reqired to write about flying and children. He served twenty-one years in the United States Air Force as an officer and pilot retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. His second retirement occurred in 1993 from Continental Airlines where he last flew as a B-727 Captain. Mike has written and published three children's books and two short flying stories, "Flame-out," and "That Lonesome Old Widow," which were published in Airline Pilot Magazine. He is presently writing a fiction suspence, adventure novel, "A Change of Heart," involving murder for the purpose of a heart transplant. Mike and his wife, Joan have lived in Colorado since 1967, residing in Highlands Ranch.