Surviving Deployment

Books

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Julie LaBelle

Samantha Bell
Samantha used oils to paint the scenes in Cathy's Animal Garden, a picture book about two boys who dodge wild animals while searching for their baseball.

Karen Pavlicin

Nina Victor Crittenden
Nina painted the watercolor paintings in Cedric and the Dragon, a picture book about a kind prince who fails at dragon-slaying school but saves his kingdom.

Julie LaBelle

Julie LaBelle
Julie wrote the activities in My Dad's Deployment,
an activity book for young children whose parent is deployed.

Karen Pavlicin

Karen Pavlicin
Karen is the author of two books for military families: Surviving Deployment and Life After Deployment; the children's novel Perch, Mrs. Sackets, and Crow's Nest, and the Circle of Catholic Women journals.

Christina Rodriguez

Elizabeth Raum
Elizabeth wrote Cedric
and the Dragon
, a picture book about a kind prince who fails at dragon-slaying school but saves his kingdom.

Mary Redman

Mary Redman
Mary is the author of The Wishing Tree, a picture book about a girl's unique way of helping her dad when he deploys.

Jessica Redmond

Jessica Redmond
Jessica is the author of
A Year of Absence
, the true stories of six women whose husbands deployed to Iraq at the start of the war.

Christina Rodriguez

Christina Rodriguez
Christina painted the watercolor paintings in
The Wishing Tree
and illustrated the activities in My Dad's Deployment.

Deborah Tainsh

Deborah Tainsh
Deborah is the author of Heart of a Hawk, her family's journey after the death of their son, and Surviving the Folded Flag, a collection of Gold Star families' stories.

Deborah Tainsh

Stacy Tornio
Stacy is the author of Cathy's Animal Garden,
a picture book about two boys who dodge wild animals while searching for their baseball.