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Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream For Me (2013)

by Daniel Beaty(Favorite Author)

4.46 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0316209171 (ISBN13: 9780316209175)

languge

English

genre

Picture Books

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

review 1: When his father doesn’t show up for their morning ritual, this young boy lists all the things he misses his Papa doing with him from making his favorite scrambled eggs to telling him that he loves him. He then lists the things his Papa will not be able to help him with when he gets older from fixing a car to shaving. He writes his Papa a letter telling him to come home, and after months of waiting he gets a return letter. His Papa writing down his words of wisdom as he himself cannot tell the boy in person. These words come from the heart touching on everyday subjects and reaching to intellectual advice, a father’s voice reaching out. The author’s own father was incarcerated so the author writes from the heart; you can feel in the writing the confusion and pain a... mores the child comes to grip with his new reality. Some of the illustrations are remarkable and others were very interesting. I had to stop and analyze them to see everything that was occurring on the page. The depth of the illustrations, layers built on top of each other and images set upon one another, striking and precise. The illustrator used watercolors and collage to deliver this emotional book.
review 2: The Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For me is a realistic fiction. Even though the texts in the book are short, I think it has deep meanings inside. It is about a boy who was taken care of by his father while his mom was working. However, the boy notices that his father is gone one day and never came back. He later finds out his dad was incarcerated. The boy’s father writes a letter to his son about how he should be in the future. For instance, teaching the boy how to shave as he grew older through written words; it is a very touching part. Many students go through difficulties such as loss of a parent from divorce, death, deportation, or incarceration. The book shows children’s view of an effect because of a loss. As future educators, it is our job to be there and support those hopeless students who suffer due to a loss. less

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