Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me

Daniel Beaty; Collier, Bryan (illustrator)

ISBN 10: 0316209171 / ISBN 13: 9780316209175

Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 2013

About this Item

Signed by the illustrator on the title page. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Unmarked.

Seller Inventory # Of-CL-F11

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
• Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316209171
• ISBN 13: 9780316209175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Illustrated

About this title

Synopsis

Winner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal and the Boston Horn Book Award

A simple, powerful book for children, about an absent father and the love he leaves behind

Every morning, I play a game with my father.He goes knock knock on my doorand I pretend to be asleeptill he gets right next to the bed.And my papa, he tells me, "I love you." But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring book shows the love that an absent parent can leave behind, and the strength that children find in themselves as they grow up and follow their dreams.

About the Author

Daniel Beaty is an award-winning writer, performer, educator, and empowerment expert. His works have been shared throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa in the area's of children's and adult literature, music, theater, film, and television. He has performed at The White House and has graced the stage of The Kennedy Center, as well as HBO and BET. His website is danielbeaty.com.

Bryan Collier has illustrated more than twenty-five picture books, including the award-winning Dave the Potter and Fifty Cents and a Dream, and has received numerous awards, including three Caldecott Honors and four Coretta Scott King Awards. He lives with his wife and children in Marlboro, New York. His website is bryancollier.com.