fathers

Presents the text of "Hamlet," in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost, and includes introductory and textual notes, character lists and studies, a synopsis, teaching tools and suggestions, historical background, and biographical information about Shakespeare.

A lone traveler, tired, hungry, and cold, finds a house and asks for a room for the night, but the old man to whom he speaks refers him to his father, and that man to his father, until he is finally rewarded for his efforts by the eldest.

A little girl celebrates her two fathers, who are very different except in one very important way.

A young girl describes what she, her brother, and their mother do during the year that her doctor father is serving in the Army in Vietnam.

After moving to a busy new neighborhood with his mother, Louie decides to explore and see if there is anyone he might like to have as a father.

In briefly captioned drawings and photographs, a father tells his son and daughter what things were like when he was young.

South African children gather to welcome home their fathers who have been away for several months working in the mines.

After a disappointing Christmas, Lisa learns ways to deal with her father's alcoholism with the help of her mother and an older friend.

After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.

Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.