It’s a ‘Sock-a-nina’ Day Young Boy Learns about Communication in Fun Children’s Book
Sometimes it can be really difficult to be a child, especially when no one understands them. In the whimsical new children’s book, Sock-a-nina (ISBN 1420842560, now available through AuthorHouse), written by Marti Whitaker and illustrated by Nancy Kurtz Hubbard, a young boy learns that one’s imagination and reality do not often mesh.
Martinsville, IN (PRWEB) June 24, 2005 -- Sometimes it can be really
difficult to be a child, especially when no one understands them. In the
whimsical new children’s book, Sock-a-nina (now available through AuthorHouse),
written by Marti Whitaker and illustrated by Nancy Kurtz Hubbard, a young boy
learns that one’s imagination and reality do not often
mesh.
A children’s storybook for young readers,
Sock-a-nina tells the tale of one little boy and his problems communicating with
the world. When the boy is born – all sparkling blue eyes and tufts of precious
blond hair – the whole family loves him. His mother and father dote on him while
his sister is determined to teach him to dance before he can walk. However, when
the boy learns to speak and becomes inquisitive, the sister becomes annoyed by
all of the attention he receives and the non-stop questions he asks with rapid
fire succession. The sister is constantly trying to upset him and show the boy
how much smarter she is than him. One day, in the heat of an argument, the boy
cries out, “You are a sock-a-nina sister,” and the word is
born.
As he grows, the boy uses the word to describe
everything. Sometimes his parents can tell what he means by his tone, but mostly
no one can figure it out. One day, the word comes out and his friend is hurt.
The boy tries to understand why this happens by seeking his parents for
advice.
With lovely illustrations by Hubbard,
Sock-a-nina is a fun story that teaches children to think about what they say
and to reconcile their imagination with the world around
them.
Born in Southern Michigan, Whitaker lived in
Tucson, Arizona, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Las Vegas before returning to the
Midwest with her daughter. She currently lives in Martinsville, Indiana, with
her husband Dan and her two youngest children, Libby and Daniel. Whitaker has
published one other novel, Losing Hope. For more information visit her website
at www.marthamorningtodd.com.
Hubbard
is a professional artist living in Tucson, Arizona, where she owns a business
that creates movable murals named Murals That Go.
AuthorHouse is a
premier publishing house for emerging authors and new voices in literature. For
more information, please visit www.authorhouse.com.
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