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PHOTO CAPTION: \u201cIce Rescue\u201d and \u201cGlad to do It!\u201d book series by James Burd Brewster.<\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cIce Rescue,\u201d illustrated by Mary Barrows, tells the story of three New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters from Ladder 54 where Tom Yuneman, Chris Harkinish and Kevin Hillman rescued a stranded boy from the ice in the Bronx River. Other books in the series also center on firemen as heroes.<\/p>\n
The idea for the \u201cGlad to do it!\u201d series first came to be when Brewster started telling bedtime stories to his two oldest boys (ages 5 and 3). He made up a character named Uncle Rocky – Fireman.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoys love firemen, so I told them firefighter stories,\u201d Brewster says.<\/p>\n
As he told the stories, a pattern emerged. The alarm would sound, Uncle Rocky would dress for the fire, test the fire truck\u2019s siren and horn, respond to the emergency and save the day. When thanked for his rescue, Uncle Rocky always said, \u201cGlad to do it!\u201d During the storytelling, Brewster\u2019s boys, now 38 and 36, would \u201cpretend\u201d dress for the fire, shout out the fire truck sounds and roar \u201cGlad to do it!\u201d along with Uncle Rocky.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince firefighters are usually humble when thanked for doing their duty, the last sentence of every story is \u2018Glad to do it!\u2019” Brewster explains. \u201cAnd, so the series was born.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the series became known, parents started asking Brewster to write about police officers and EMTS too since they found their young children loved them as well.<\/p>\n
In the also recently released \u201cTrusty Tinsley<\/a>,\u201d (ISBN: 978-1954682153), the sixth Officer Jack book in the \u201cGlad to do it!\u201d series, a Shiloh Shepherd leads Trooper Sandberg of the New Hampshire State Police (NHSP) and Lebanon, New Hampshire and Hartford, Vermont first responders to the car wreck of its owner. Officer Jack, an African-American male, and Officer Kate, a white female, are partners in the stories.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a story right out of Lassie,\u201d Brewster says. \u201cFirst responders go to rescue a stray dog on the highway and the dog leads them to his owner, who\u2019d been thrown from his car and was freezing to death. He saved his life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBaby\u2019s Breath<\/a>\u201d (ISBN: 978-1954682146), the fifth in the Officer Jack series, is a Brewster favorite. TSA Officer Cecilia Morales was working the scanner line at Newark Liberty International Airport. She scrambled over a bunch of equipment to reach a baby who had stopped breathing and her medical training prevented a horrible holiday tragedy.<\/p>\n \u201cMy sister sent me the story and I knew it\u2019d be perfect for the Officer Jack series,\u201d Brewster says.<\/p>\n Brewster was personally involved in \u201cClamshell Stretcher<\/a>,\u201d (ISBN: 978-1941927519), the first EMT Morales story in the series. This story describes how EMTs and paramedics from Waldorf Station 12 in Charles County, Maryland used a \u201cClamshell Stretcher\u201d to lift a man off the ground without causing him undue pain.<\/p>\n \u201cI was driving home in a light rain and saw a man on the ground surrounded by neighbors,\u201d Brewster says. \u201cI stopped and held an umbrella. The man had a dislocated hip and EMTs used a \u2018Clamshell Stretcher\u2019 to lift him off the ground. It was an amazing invention, so I wrote a story about it.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cGlad to do it!\u201d series is unique in that the stories retell actual emergency responses, encourage children to play-act and use adult characters as role models so children learn to go to adults for help. It also teaches humility with its final \u201cGlad to do it!\u201d sentence.<\/p>\n Learn more about \u201cIce Rescue\u201d at: https:\/\/www.gladtodoit.net\/uncle-rocky-10-ice-rescue.html<\/a><\/p>\n To learn more about the series, and download a free eBook version of \u201cUncle Rocky – Fireman #1 Fire!\u201d visit: https:\/\/www.gladtodoit.net\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n About James Burd Brewster:<\/strong><\/p>\n James Burd Brewster, president, J2B Publishing<\/a> and the author of the \u201cGlad to do it!<\/a>\u201d series started J2B Publishing in 2013 as an Indie Press with a mission to publish \u201cGood books for boys and girls.\u201d It now specializes in publishing new children\u2019s book authors.<\/p>\n Brewster grew up in Albany, N.Y., learned to sail on Lake Champlain, graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy, drove an icebreaker to the Arctic and retired after a 23-year career. He and wife, Katie, raised and homeschooled five children and live in southern Maryland.<\/p>\n Brewster\u2019s father taught him, \u201cYou can grow grass or children, but not both.\u201d Like his father, he decided to grow children and now writes and publishes children\u2019s books to help other parents grow their children.<\/p>\n Learn more: https:\/\/www.j2bllc.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n
![https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/300dpi\/22-1018-s2p-ice-rescue-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nPhoto Caption: \u201cIce Rescue\u201d and \u201cGlad to do It!\u201d book series by James Burd Brewster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POMFRET, Md., Oct. 18, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — J2B Publishing announces the release of “Uncle Rocky – Fireman #10 – Ice Rescue” (ISBN: 978-1954682160), authored by James Burd Brewster. It’s the 10th Uncle Rocky – Fireman book in the “Glad to do it!” children’s series and is illustrated for kids aged 3-7. The series honors first responders by retelling true-life emergency response stories through the eyes of its characters: Uncle Rocky – Fireman, Officers Jack and Kate and EMT Morales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9439,"featured_media":85938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12804,1,37,307,134,426,607,559],"tags":[3002,18662,18663],"class_list":["post-85964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-publishing-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-entertainment-news","category-family-parenting-news","category-general-editorial-news","category-maryland-news","category-police-fire-rescue-news","category-products-news","tag-childrens-books","tag-illustrator-mary-barrows","tag-new-york-city-fire-department","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4949,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/300dpi\/22-1018-s2p-ice-rescue-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}