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Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me — Daniel Beaty
Winner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal and the Boston Horn Book Award
A simple, powerful book for children, about an absent father and the love he leaves behind
Every morning, I play a game with my father.He goes knock knock on my doorand I pretend to be asleeptill he gets right next to the bed.And my papa, he tells me, "I love you." But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring book shows the love that an absent parent can leave behind, and the strength that children find in themselves as they grow up and follow their dreams.
A simple, powerful book for children, about an absent father and the love he leaves behind
Every morning, I play a game with my father.He goes knock knock on my doorand I pretend to be asleeptill he gets right next to the bed.And my papa, he tells me, "I love you." But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring book shows the love that an absent parent can leave behind, and the strength that children find in themselves as they grow up and follow their dreams.
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- 2014 Coretta Scott King Award -- Illustrator (Winner)
- 2013 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (2008-Up) -- Picture Book (Silver Medal Winner)
- 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Picture Book (Honor Book)
- 2014 Cybils -- Fiction Picture Book (Finalist)
- 2013 Publishers Weekly -- Starred Review (*)
- 2014 Junior Library Guild -- Selection (*)
