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Renowned illustrator Mies van Hout delivers a funny and affectionate picture book that celebrates fathers and the value of play.
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Mies van Hout, the celebrated artist behind acclaimed picture books Happy, Friends, Surprise, and From One to Ten, gives readers a fun and adorable challenge: to identify the loving fathers of baby animals. Visually similar portraits of the candidates (is it a hedgehog? A porcupine? A cactus?) add complexity and humor.Mies van Hout, the celebrated artist behind acclaimed picture books Happy, Friends, Surprise, and From One to Ten, gives readers a fun and adorable challenge: to identify the loving fathers of baby animals. Visually similar portraits of the candidates (is it a hedgehog? A porcupine? A cactus?) add complexity and humor.
Summary
Renowned illustrator Mies van Hout delivers a funny and affectionate picture book that celebrates fathers and the value of play.
“Who is my Daddy?” asks a prickly baby animal. Is it the porcupine? The dust bunny? Could it be the cactus? No! It’s the father hedgehog, of course, cuddling his baby to sleep.
With This is My Daddy!, acclaimed author-illustrator Mies van Hout gives young readers a fun and often funny challenge: correctly choose a baby animal’s father from among four candidates, rendered in striking portraits. The vibrant cast includes busy beavers, slippery snails, roaming rhinos, and more.
A clever twist on babies-and-parents books, This is My Daddy! will mesmerize little ones with the details of its vivid artwork. Then, just when the complacent reader has the pattern all figured out, story time wraps up with a side-splitting surprise.
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