FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Page & Palette Bookstore, 32 S. Section St. in Fairhope, has recently welcomed another local author to its shelves.

David Atwood recently published “The Common Guy’s Guide to Raising Children.” If you are looking for a how-to book by someone with alphabet soup after their name, put this book down. The author is the most common of common guys.

The book is an in-the-trenches, down-and-dirty guide to raising children. It is not about being the perfect parent.

There are no books written, nor college courses given, that tell you how to raise a child. Whether you are a new parent, or one with a vast amount of experience, you have heard, or will hear, the phrase, “They don’t come with an instruction manual.” This is true.

Children are all different and no single idea applies, but there are some basic and fundamental principles that Atwood has learned over the years, and those are what he wants to share with you.

You can do it; it is in you. It has been programmed into you since the beginning of time.  Atwood’s goal is to remind you of those fundamentals and let you become reacquainted with them.

Go ahead, explore what you already know.

A former resident of Alaska, Atwood majored in biology and chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin after his combat tour in Vietnam with the Marine Corps.

He is the father of eight children and lives in Fairhope with his wife and two young daughters.

For more information, call (251) 928-5295, or visit www.pageandpalette.com.