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Always my Dad /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,c 1995.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0679834478 (trade)
  • 9780679834472 (trade)
  • 0679934472 (GLB)
  • 9780679934479 (GLB)
  • 0679889345
  • 9780679889342
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Always my Dad.DDC classification:
  • [E] 20
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.W9746 Al 1995
Online resources: Summary: Although she does not get to see her father very often, a girl enjoys the time she and her brothers spend with him one summer while they are visiting their grandparents' farm. Though Dad moves around a lot and his jobs keep changing, a young girl and her brother hold fast to memories of his magical, unexpected visits in this portrait of an African-American family held together by a special bond of love. "This poignant, lyrical story captures the games children play; the anticipation and pleasure of seeing a mostly absent, yet loving parent; and the reality of having no control over what adults do, of never knowing what might happen next, and of parting. Regardless of circumstances, somehow it's always clear to this patient, wise-for-her-years girl that her father loves her. The etched watercolor, charcoal, colored-pencil, and lithograph-pencil art has a dreamy, statuesque quality."
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
E E Chamberlin Free Public Library Picture Book E WYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PZ7.W9746 Available 34517000157332
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E WOO Little Red E WOO The day you begin / E WRI The blizzard / E WYE Always my Dad / E WYL The gumdrop monster / E WYN Nell plants a tree / E YAC Lawn to lawn

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Although she does not get to see her father very often, a girl enjoys the time she and her brothers spend with him one summer while they are visiting their grandparents' farm. Though Dad moves around a lot and his jobs keep changing, a young girl and her brother hold fast to memories of his magical, unexpected visits in this portrait of an African-American family held together by a special bond of love. "This poignant, lyrical story captures the games children play; the anticipation and pleasure of seeing a mostly absent, yet loving parent; and the reality of having no control over what adults do, of never knowing what might happen next, and of parting. Regardless of circumstances, somehow it's always clear to this patient, wise-for-her-years girl that her father loves her. The etched watercolor, charcoal, colored-pencil, and lithograph-pencil art has a dreamy, statuesque quality."

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