Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In 2008, author Walter Dean Myers published another war book, Sunrise Over Fallujah, about Robin Perry, Richard's nephew, serving in the Iraq War. Robin even has a funny war buddy, like Peewee. We smell a formula. (Source)
Walter Dean Myers had to change his phone number because of this book. Veterans started calling him in the middle of the night to talk about their experience. That's how you know he got it right. (Source)
Walter Dean Myers' son went into children's books, too. He's now an illustrator. It's all in the family. (Source)
58,000 Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam War. Think that number's bad? The Vietnamese casualty numbers are even worse at one to two million. (Source)