William McRaven adapts bestseller ‘Make Your Bed’ for kids

NEW YORK (AP) — The retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is continuing his career as an author.

William McRaven is adapting his best-selling “Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life ... And Maybe the World” for younger audiences. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced Monday that McRaven’s “Make Your Bed With Skipper the Seal” will come out Oct. 12.

“When my three children were young, I always took time to read to them,” McRaven said in a statement. “I found that stories of adventure and overcoming challenges helped shape their character and inspired them to be their very best. I hope that ‘Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal’ is just such a book!”

McRaven, 65, led the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command in 2011 when a team of Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in Pakistan. He also led the 2009 rescue of Richard Phillips, a ship captain who was captured by Somali pirates and later portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 2013 movie “Captain Phillips.” McRaven, himself a former SEAL, retired from the Navy in 2014.

Mexicali Chamber of Commerce President Lidia Granados said the organization welcomes the change from red to orange in the public health alert system.

Granados told La Voz newspaper that many member businesses had been affected by the restrictions imposed on them during the pandemic.

The loosened restrictions will allow many members to operate more hours — a change that will benefit the economy, she said.

Granados said, for example, that stores had been limited to open until 10 p.m.

She also said event centers were also impacted by limiting capacity to 30 percent. She added January’s surge in COVID cases can be attributed to unsafe behavior at family gathers, not by business activities, which must comply with security and hygiene standards.