father and child

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father and child

Interrupting chicken

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

Big guy

Derek is forced to face his sexuality and his troubled relationship with his father after he meets an injured young woman who helps him realize what is truly important in life.

And every morning the way home gets longer and longer

a novella
2017
A portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.

The too-scary story

2017
At bedtime, their father tells Grace and Walter a scary story about two children in a dark forest.

Let's have a Daddy Day

2010
A father describes several possibilities for sharing special time with his children, but finally realizes that just playing and laughing together are fun and will be remembered warmly.

How many stars in the sky?

One night when Mama is away, Daddy and child seek a good place to count the stars in the night sky.

In the shadow of the sun

Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, an food aide worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean atrocities, and her father is arrested.

The barn

2014
Ben and his sister must take over the family farm when their father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855.

The education of Patience Goodspeed

2006
In 1836, fourteen-year-old Patience Goodspeed, daughter of a ship's captain, is unexpectedly sent to a boarding school along with her brother when danger arrives at sea, and she soon suspects that her etiquette teacher is seeking out her father for a husband.

A day with Daddy

2004
After a visit to the zoo with the children, it is Daddy who needs the nap.

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