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When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.

Told in simple rhyming text, hard-working construction vehicle fathers guide and encourage their children.

Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.

As nighttime falls all types of fathers--fish, rabbits, snails, pigs, and a boy's father--make their way home to their families.

"A young elephant sees his dad is in a bad mood and tries to cheer him up, not realizing his own mischief caused the bad mood in the first place"--

"Papa Bear is the best dad that a cub could ask for. So for Father's Day, the cubs decide to do all of Papa Bear's work for him. What a special treat!"--P. [4] of cover.

Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid 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...

In rhyming text, animal children share all the things their fathers do for them.

When Mommy and Daddy take Jake and Jenny back-to-school shopping, they are determined to stick to their list but when Mommy steps away, requests for items not on the list abound, including one from Daddy.

"The world looks very big when you're very small, but Little Elephant can reach just about anything with the help of his dad"--