My Boy From Mars: It Was a Gift to Witness (New Local Author)

He was at a whole other level.

When Monte Cowing’s son, Jacob, was a youngster first getting involved in sports, Monte discerned that his son’s abilities as an athlete were special and unique—in part because of Jacob’s musculature and abnormal strength and flexibility that gave him the nickname, “Little Martian.” That, combined with their shared love for superheroes and the planet Krypton, the fictional home of Superman, inspired the title of this book.

In My Boy from Mars, Monte does far more than exult about his son’s incredible athleticism through childhood, high school, and into college. He provides brutally honest insights about how parents of young athletes often undermine and emotionally wound their own children in a callous pursuit of success in sports—and he provides keen, timely advice and insights from his own life on how they can avoid those pitfalls to help their youngsters excel in a loving, caring way.