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The Fathers Are Coming Home

by Stephen P. Savage
32p. 978-0-68983-345-8.
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PreS Linocut illustrations in soft, appealing colors depict fathers returning home to their children at day's end. Animals, including a rabbit, ladybug, dog, and bird, are reunited with their offspring in their homes in a hollow tree, under a log, in a birdhouse. One child is also reunited with his sailor father returning from the sea. Mothers are never shown or mentioned. Though the bug flies, the rabbit hops, and the fish swims, there's no movement in the static pictures. Each shows the dad on one page, with one or two sentences of minimal text, facing his youngster on the other. There's not much child appeal here, but the book may reassure some children that their fathers will return home.-"Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI" Copyright 2010 Media Source Inc.
As the sun sets, all types of fathers return to their little ones: a rabbit to his bunnies, a dog to his pups, and a sailor to his little boy. In this newly discovered manuscript, the text's constructions aren't always parallel, so at times the cadence is irregular. Retro-style linocuts in eye-catching colors evoke the bond between father and child.

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