NEW YORK – Jill Biden, after years of teaching English to college and high school students, has written a book of her own.
The wife of Vice President Joe Biden has completed a children’s story, “Don’t Forget, Nana, God Bless Our Troops,” told from the point of view of granddaughter Natalie Biden and a tribute to soldiers and their families. Biden, called Nana by her granddaughter, has met with many military families and said she thought of doing the book as she realized how many people did not understand their experiences. The story is especially personal because son Beau Biden, Delaware’s attorney general and a major in the state’s Army National Guard, spent a year in Iraq.
“I really feel that you write your best about what you know best,” Jill Biden, who taught in Delaware before moving to Washington, said Tuesday during a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press. “That’s what I teach to my students, so I thought using my own experience would have a little more meaning and a little more heart to it.”
The book will be published June 5 by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers and will be illustrated by Raul Colon, who has worked
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