A Card For My Father
by Samantha Thornhill
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Pub Date May 08 2018 | Archive Date Jul 18 2019
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Description
2019 White Raven Selection from the International Youth Library
How can Flora complete her class assignment to make a Father’s Day card when she’s never met her father?
The first title in a trilogy of picture books exploring the lasting effects, big and small, of a father’s incarceration on his first-grade daughter, Flora. When Flora's class has to make Father's Day cards, she bonds with a classmate who also doesn't have a father and instead makes a card for President Obama. Desperate to know her father but afraid to ask her mother about him, Flora asks strangers and imagines myriad dads, but it's not until she asks her mother if she can send her father a card that Flora begins to understand, even if she doesn't quite know it yet. Graphic novel format perfect for young readers.
A Note From the Publisher
Keywords: Daughter, Mother, Incarceration, Children of Incarcerated Parents, Single-Parent household, Father’s Day, School, Feeling Different, fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, prison
Advance Praise
“The beginning of a needed story.” —Kirkus Reviews
“I participated as a reviewer in Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 and during the group’s Twitter party so many people were asking for children’s books about incarcerated parents. A Card for my Father doesn’t just fill a gap on the bookshelf, it does it very well. This book is special. … Thornhill can’t stop herself from writing poetry, and Clement’s images play an integral role in the story. Her illustrations give Flora’s feelings a heavy presence on the page. Word and image pair perfectly giving the subject matter engaged the dignity it deserves and gifting the world with a brilliant book.” —Jennifer Miller, Raise Them Righteous
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780998799964 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 40 |
