“Dream to be different”: Local author reads to students

“Dream to be different”: Local author reads to students

Local author read his first book to Becky Miller’s first-grade class Tuesday at Margaret R. Brown Elementary. Shawn Rockey of Seymour wrote the book “Bob the Blue Firetruck” for his three-year-old nephew as a Christmas gift to teach him about their family history and the association to a blue firetruck. “I wanted to give him something rather then just stuff,” he said. “That was my goal; to write him a book.” The original version of the book was …