Daddy, Daddy, Be There

by Candy Dawson Boyd

Book Overview

"Daddy, Daddy, be there". So begins each compelling verse in this warm appeal to fathers everywhere. Children want to share with their daddies--sandwiches, jokes, music, and dreams. No moment is too great or too small. Teachers change, friends move, grandparents die, but even during the hardest times, children ask "Daddy, be there". Full color.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399227458
• ISBN13: 9780399227455
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Philomel Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This is a very good book for children that do not have their father in the home,(for whatever reason) but have a relationship with him. It was purchased for my grandchildren to give to their daddy after he got out of prison. It brings a tear to the eye.

IGood Oral Language Piece

About eight years ago, my son read, memorized and performed up stage using this story and it touched many people in the audience deeply, because everyone in that multipurpose room were extremely quiet. I caught a few people with tears and some trying so hard to hold them back. Another son is now wanting to use this story for his oral language piece. This is a great story.

I appreciate my father more since Daddy, Daddy, Be There.

For a society that underestimates the power of the father in the home, this book is a must read. If you can get through two pages without identifying it to your own childhood needs, you indeed had a perfect father. if you can get through three pages without crying, you will understand the total need for a book like this one. If we as a society don't include and support our dads involvement in our kids lives, we indeed are being unjust and guilty of neglect to a resource that is right in front of our faces. Daddy's big hands can help eliminate a big source of our childhood injuries. Raising children in a home that is without the example of a father, is like forgetting the need for chocolate in fudge. It just doesn't turnout the same. thank you Candy