Theme: father and daughter

Flyaway

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

If they saved the swan together, could she then save her friend?In a heartbeat, in a wingbeat, it happens. Isla’s father falls. They’re racing across the fields, following the swans flying in to winter at the lake like they do every year, when something goes wrong. And before she can even catch her breath, they’re [...]

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Dogtag Summer

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Twelve-year-old Tracy–or Tuyet–has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or “half-breed,” because her father was an American GI. And she doesn’t fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier’s dogtag hidden among her father’s things, it sets her past and her [...]

Descriptors: Asia, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Viet Nam » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Sylvie and the Songman

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Sylvie Bartram lives alone with Mr. Jackson the dog and her eccentric composer father, who invents strange and wonderful musical instruments. One day she returns from school to find a message left in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror: her father has been kidnapped. Later that night, the house is visited by a terrifying apparition—a half-man, [...]

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Nabulela: A South African Folk Tale

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

When the village girls cruelly trick the daughter of their king, he will forgive them only if they kill Nabulela, a treacherous white-skinned monster.

Descriptors: Africa, Early Years (ages 2-6), Folklore, Picture Book, South Africa » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Galileo’s Treasure Box

By Book Importer | Published: May 4, 2011

While Galileo sleeps, his young daughter Virginia, later known as Maria Celeste, explores his study and discovers some of the tools he uses in his scientific experiments.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Historical Fiction, Italy, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Samurai’s Daughter

By Book Importer | Published: May 24, 2010

A Japanese folk tale about the brave daughter of a samurai warrior and her journey to be reunited with her exiled father. When Tokoyo’s father, a samurai nobleman, is sent into exile on a lonely island in a distant sea, his young daughter is determined to join him. Despite her noble birth, Tokoyo has spent [...]

Descriptors: Folklore, Japan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Days Of The Blackbird

By Book Importer | Published: February 22, 2010

Gemma, a young girl living in the mountains of northern Italy, asks the blackbirds to sing to her ailing father, Duca Gennaro, and only one blackbird decides to remain when the weather becomes cooler, in the story of the origins of the Days of the Blackbird.

Descriptors: Europe, Folklore, Italy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

The Child Cruncher

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Being kidnapped is not as thrilling as one plucky girl had hoped. Her big, ugly villain turns out to be an ordinary child cruncher. What a disappointment! Instead of taking her on all sorts of adventures, he only wants to eat her up. Luckily, she knows just what to do.

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Fantasy, Netherlands, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , » 1 Comment

Being Bee

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Bee can’t understand what her father sees in Jazzi. Ever since Bee’s mom died, she, her dad, and her two guinea pigs, Fifi and Lulu, have been getting along just fine. Now Bee is supposed to welcome Jazzi, with her bangled skirts and her rock-hard scones and her new way of looking at everything. Imagine [...]

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Peek!: A Thai Hide-and-Seek

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

A father and daughter play hide-and-seek in the midst of the animals near their house in Thailand. Papa calls on all the creatures of the jungle to help find his baby in this game of hide-and-seek.”Jut-Ay, Baby, peek-a-boo,Want to play? Where are you?” Baby knows that Jut-Ay means morning has come, and it’s time to [...]

Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Picture Book, Realistic Fiction, Thailand » Other Themes: , » Leave a comment