The Daddy Book (World's Family Series)

Morris, Ann

ISBN 10: 0382246969 ISBN 13: 9780382246968

Publisher: Silver Pr, 1995

Synopsis

A loving, positive look at fathers around the world and how they relate to their children

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Billed as the World's Family series, this perky but standard-issue quartet of photo-essays explores relations between parents and offspring all over the globe. Mothers "wash you and feed you and teach you to cook." Fathers "play songs for you. They take you fishing." Alongside this sex-role stereotyping, however, is a generally successful bid for a multicultural overview. Ken Heyman, supplying vivid photos for Baby, Mommy and Daddy, shows families of different races and ethnicities, as an illustrated glossary at the back of each book points out ("This child from Peru... is wrapped in a llama's wool blanket"; "This Pueblo mother and her little boy make delicious pies for a family party"). In Animals, photos of animals with their young, taken by a variety of photographers, are only serviceable?the compositions aren't especially original and the colors are washed out. Here Morris has varied the format, replacing the straightforward sentences of the other books with pedestrian rhymes ("Kangaroos are very jumpy./ Camels frequently are bumpy"). Each of these titles achieves its modest goal, but leaves no lasting impression. Ages 2-6.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-K?Oversized full-color photographs of moms, dads, and babies from many cultures and the animal kingdom illustrate aspects of each category. As usual, Heyman's pictures are current, charming, and involving. Indexes briefly explain something about each one. Some inform: the Pueblo family is baking bread; the boy's hair is cut short because of his religion. But others seem bland: "This modern mom and her son enjoy the zoo together." The Animal Book follows the same pictorial format showing young creatures with their parents. However, the rhymed text seems forced; a pride of lions watch rather than watches; wiggly is supposed to rhyme with slippery; and a giraffe is said to grow up very tall but the picture shows a small animal beside a large one. Let other books stand in for baby animals. The other three, however, will be useful in encouraging children to talk about families.?Susan Hepler, Alexandria City Public Schools,
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Silver Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0382246969
• ISBN 13: 9780382246968
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32