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6) Mighty dads
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30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29cm
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English
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Told in simple rhyming text, hard-working construction vehicle fathers guide and encourage their children.
8) I'm awake!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
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"An energetic young critter tries to coax his dad out of bed in the morning"--
9) Hero dad
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A young boy demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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Extols the virtues of dads who still read comics and watch cartoons, understand that clothes do not have to match and that pancakes need not be round, and do not mind getting their hair wet -- if they have any.
11) You look yummy!
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pages cm
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A baby ankylosaurus and a big tyrannosaurus become a family.
12) Gator dad
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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"From seemingly mundane tasks such as grocery shopping to more active pursuits like a romp at the park and fort-building, a loving and playful father alligator shows his gator kids that the simplest pleasures done together can make for an incredibly fun day"--
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When Pippa and Jack's mother died of cancer their world seemed to fall apart: Pippa stopped talking altogether, and Jack started picking fights, and neither of them knows how to cope with the painful and awkward sympathy from their friends and classmates--but when they learn that their father's business is failing and he is growing desperate for money they realize that there is a possibility that they will lose another parent, this time to jail.
15) Papa's home
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A child worries about what it will be like while his papa is away, until papa is home"--
16) Sidewalk flowers
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A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.
17) A father's love
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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Throughout the animal kingdom and within snug houses, fathers express love for their children in their own unique ways. Includes facts about the animals featured.
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Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble -- and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean...
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"Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loud father-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious, quality."--
20) Side by side
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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A heartfelt ode to the physical and emotional roles of father and child.
"King and Jester, Boat and Captain, Mountain and Climber ... fathers and children are all of these things and more in Chris Raschka's tribute to this familial pair. Each stanza presents three scenarios in which the father and child's roles are subtly balanced. The pairs vary between stanzas, coming together in a visit to an ice-cream truck. With minimal text and maximum emotion,...
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