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Daddy's in Iraq, but I Want him Back

by Carmen R. Hoyt

24 pages; Saddle stitched; illustrated; catalogue #05-0943; ISBN 1-4120-6042-7; US$13.05, C$15.01, EUR10.72, £7.50

True story of three-year-old Jack and his Daddy's deployment to the War in Iraq. Written for small children to view a beginning, middle and end to these deployments.

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About the Book

An hour is a long time to a small child. How do you describe the length of a military war deployment to a preschooler? When attempting to tell my son that his Daddy was not going to be gone for just a week or seven wake-ups, but for several months, I longed for a better way to lay it out for him. I felt a need for this story to be written when my three year old, Jack, became very insecure upon his father's deployment to the War in Iraq. I wished there was a way to help him "get his little arms around" the situation. It was new for me also and I didn't know how to help him. When my husband returned safely, I wanted to write the story. I wanted to document this time in our family's life; to put parameters around the situation for little people, who have no idea what's going to happen or why. Hopefully children can use our story to help deal with these deployments by seeing that there is a beginning, middle and thank God, an end to their parent or loved one being gone.

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About the Author

Carmen Hoyt is a homemaker currently living in Southen California with her husband, Gary and three boys, Grant, Jack and Ryan. Carmen grew up in a small town in Northern Wisconsin, where the family now spends summers. While attending college in Chicago, she met and married her husband who was finishing his Ph. D. in Psychology. Gary did his internship in the Navy and enjoyed military life so much so that they have chosen to remain a military familty for 10 years now. Gary returned safely from his first deployment to Iraq in September, 2004.

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