my dad the magnificent - Hardcover

Parker, Kristy; Illustrated By Lillian Hoban

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0216922372 ISBN 13: 9780216922372

Publisher: Blackie, 1987

Synopsis

My Dad the Magnificent

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-K When Buddy's new friend Alex starts bragging about his fireman father, Buddy can't resist surpassing him, creating a different, exotic profession for his father for each day of the week. With trademark spontaneity, Hoban amplifies Buddy's exaggerations so that each vision blooms larger than life. When Buddy's father comes home from work in his ordinary business suit, Buddy confesses that he hasn't told the truth, but Buddy does realize that his ordinary father is ``the most magnificent dad in the whole world.'' This book is not an artistic or literary eventsome of the word choices seem a bit forced in a book so unpretentious and attuned to childhood experiencesbut Parker does accurately capture the way children fall prey to playing the game of one-upmanship. Both author and illustrator reveal a strong sense of the child's perspective and the ability to convey character relationship in a few lines. Susan Powers, Berkeley Carroll Street Sch . , Brooklyn
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackie
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0216922372
• ISBN 13: 9780216922372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Illustrator: Hoban Lillian