Ask The Brave Soldier

Moral stories that not only entertain the children but also educate them about the virtues of life.

A young soldier's initial enthusiasm for the war effort turns to bitterness.

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

The Archangel Prophecies follows the journey of four young heroes born into a world of choas and fear. Determined not to let their rocky start hold them back they begin to not only live but thrive. In spite of all the obstacles thrown their way they learn that together they can achieve the impossible. Through determination and sheer force of will the young heroes forge themselves into Archangels and set about righting the wrongs of those who came before them. When the first of their kind sets his sights upon the Archangels it becomes not only a battle for their lives but for the planet and every lifeform on it.

The old soldier tells the tale of how he defeated Napoleon.

This book is a thank you to every man and woman (and to their families) who made/make the decision to defend the free world, **Note** This book is un-illustrated, honestly, because I didn't know how to go about illustrating a children's book about this subject. My hope is that the words are enough.