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Veterans Reign in Their Own Parade

Mom’s Choice Award Winner-Gold
Outstanding Young Contributors: Author / Poet

Award Winning Finalist 2008 National Best Books Award, USA Book News

5th graders write about what patriotism means to them

 

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By 5th Grade Rainelle Elementary School, Rainelle, WV with Martin & Delia Wach

Mom’s Choice Award Gold Outstanding Young Contributors: Author /Poet
Award Winning Finalist USA Best Book Awards

5th graders write about what patriotism means to them. Eighteen years ago Rolling Thunder Veterans stopped in a small town in West Virginia on their way across America to the Vietnam Wall in Washington. They were greeted as Heroes in Rainelle, West Virginia and have been coming back ever since. Rolling Thunder, Run for the Wall and Task Force Omega have donated over $100,000 to the elementary school over the years and the children have now written a book with children s book authors Martin and Delia Wach.
Beautifully illustrated, this is an inspirational book for all ages!
Year Published

2007

Author

Martin & Delia Wach

ISBN

0929915631

Cover

Hardcover

Size

9 x 12

Other Details

Collaboration Book Program

Pages

32

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About the Author

Delia Bowman Wach is a highly acclaimed watercolor and mixed-media artist who has fallen in love with painting Teddy Bears and their friends.  Delia enjoyed placing small animals in many of her earlier works and was told that she seemed to give these creatures a living personality.  This ability has made her one of today’s best known children’s book illustrators.
     In the early 1990’s Martin Wach went to Suriname, South America, for business and by chance met a Maroon Medicine Man.  This led to a trip into the rain forest and meetings with the chiefs of the four Maroon Indian Tribes to discuss their need to create trade and commerce with America.  Martin suggested the creation of sustainable micro-businesses as a solution to creating new trade relationships.  The projects included the search for new medicines, aviculture, butterfly farming, poison dart frog research and eco-tourism.  While Martin was working with the Maroons, Delia was creating a cast of characters who live in the rain forest, out of…TEDDY BEARS!!!
Delia created the characters that would tell the story of the importance of saving our rain forests and Martin helped to write the story. Teddy Bear Guardians of the Rain Forest was born.

           Martin and Delia have now spoken to over 680 schools in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, Utah, New York, Florida, and Virginia. They have spoken to an average of 2500 students per week primarily in elementary schools. They have also spoken to middle, high school, and college students as well as adult audiences. Delia has become so successful she now spends full time at the drawing board creating new characters, but will be rejoining Martin for especially interesting invitations.
     In elementary schools, Martin begins with a 45 minute lecture. Martin tells amazing stories about the Rain Forest – Never, Never, Never Sit on a Tarantula, and Delia explains the art of illustration with From a Box of Crayons to a Digital Universe. She demonstrates how an idea in the artist’s head appears on paper.