Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786804955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A father shares dinner and bedtime rituals with his daughter before going outto work the night shift. Full color.
Night Shift Daddy
Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786804955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A father shares dinner and bedtime rituals with his daughter before going outto work the night shift. Full color.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786804955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A father shares dinner and bedtime rituals with his daughter before going outto work the night shift. Full color.
The Daddy Shift
Author: Jeremy A. Smith
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807097373
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood-for men, their families, and for American society It's a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What do stay-at-home fathers struggle with-and what do they rejoice in? How does taking up the mother's traditional role affect a father's relationship with his partner, children, and extended family? And what does stay-at-home fatherhood mean for the larger society? In chapters that alternate between large-scale analysis and intimate portraits of men and their families, journalist Jeremy Adam Smith traces the complications, myths, psychology, sociology, and history of a new set of social relationships with far-reaching implications. As the American economy faces its greatest crisis since the Great Depression, Smith reveals that many mothers today have the ability to support families and fathers are no longer narrowly defined by their ability to make money-they have the capacity to be caregivers as well. The result, Smith argues, is a startling evolutionary advance in the American family, one that will help families better survive the twenty-first century. As Smith explains, stay-at-home dads represent a logical culmination of fifty years of family change, from a time when the idea of men caring for children was literally inconceivable, to a new era when at-home dads are a small but growing part of the landscape. Their numbers and cultural importance will continue to rise-and Smith argues that they must rise, as the unstable, global, creative, technological economy makes flexible gender roles both more possible and more desirable. But the stories of real people form the heart of this book: couples from every part of the country and every walk of life. They range from working class to affluent, and they are black, white, Asian, and Latino. We meet Chien, who came to Kansas City as a refugee from the Vietnam War and today takes care of a growing family; Kent, a midwestern dad who nursed his son through life-threatening disabilities (and Kent's wife, Misun, who has never doubted for a moment that breadwinning is the best thing she can do for her family); Ta-Nehisi, a writer in Harlem who sees involved fatherhood as "the ultimate service to black people"; Michael, a gay stay-at-home dad in Oakland who enjoys a profoundly loving and egalitarian partnership with his husband; and many others. Through their stories, we discover that as America has evolved and diversified, so has fatherhood.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807097373
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood-for men, their families, and for American society It's a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What do stay-at-home fathers struggle with-and what do they rejoice in? How does taking up the mother's traditional role affect a father's relationship with his partner, children, and extended family? And what does stay-at-home fatherhood mean for the larger society? In chapters that alternate between large-scale analysis and intimate portraits of men and their families, journalist Jeremy Adam Smith traces the complications, myths, psychology, sociology, and history of a new set of social relationships with far-reaching implications. As the American economy faces its greatest crisis since the Great Depression, Smith reveals that many mothers today have the ability to support families and fathers are no longer narrowly defined by their ability to make money-they have the capacity to be caregivers as well. The result, Smith argues, is a startling evolutionary advance in the American family, one that will help families better survive the twenty-first century. As Smith explains, stay-at-home dads represent a logical culmination of fifty years of family change, from a time when the idea of men caring for children was literally inconceivable, to a new era when at-home dads are a small but growing part of the landscape. Their numbers and cultural importance will continue to rise-and Smith argues that they must rise, as the unstable, global, creative, technological economy makes flexible gender roles both more possible and more desirable. But the stories of real people form the heart of this book: couples from every part of the country and every walk of life. They range from working class to affluent, and they are black, white, Asian, and Latino. We meet Chien, who came to Kansas City as a refugee from the Vietnam War and today takes care of a growing family; Kent, a midwestern dad who nursed his son through life-threatening disabilities (and Kent's wife, Misun, who has never doubted for a moment that breadwinning is the best thing she can do for her family); Ta-Nehisi, a writer in Harlem who sees involved fatherhood as "the ultimate service to black people"; Michael, a gay stay-at-home dad in Oakland who enjoys a profoundly loving and egalitarian partnership with his husband; and many others. Through their stories, we discover that as America has evolved and diversified, so has fatherhood.
Searching for Daddy
Author: Christine Joanna Hart
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848945876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A horrifying story of a girl scarred by religious mania and childhood abuse, who is driven to believe one of Britain's most infamous criminals was her father. Christine's childhood was utterly desolate. Starved of all love, she was so consumed with loneliness and fear that she was drawn in to the world of a dangerous serial killer. Christine was abandoned as a baby by her mother on the doorstep of a convent. She was adopted, but this only turned out to be the start of a new nightmare. When she was 13, she was sent her back to the orphanage. It was this act of betrayal that pushed her to breaking point. Christine began a desperate quest for her real father but a twisted path of events finally took her face to face with Ian Brady, the notorious Moors Murderer. It was this extraordinary encounter that forced Christine to confront reality and allowed her to reclaim her life. Searching For Daddy is a shocking true story of desperate loneliness and phenomenal courage that will move and inspire anyone who reads it.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848945876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A horrifying story of a girl scarred by religious mania and childhood abuse, who is driven to believe one of Britain's most infamous criminals was her father. Christine's childhood was utterly desolate. Starved of all love, she was so consumed with loneliness and fear that she was drawn in to the world of a dangerous serial killer. Christine was abandoned as a baby by her mother on the doorstep of a convent. She was adopted, but this only turned out to be the start of a new nightmare. When she was 13, she was sent her back to the orphanage. It was this act of betrayal that pushed her to breaking point. Christine began a desperate quest for her real father but a twisted path of events finally took her face to face with Ian Brady, the notorious Moors Murderer. It was this extraordinary encounter that forced Christine to confront reality and allowed her to reclaim her life. Searching For Daddy is a shocking true story of desperate loneliness and phenomenal courage that will move and inspire anyone who reads it.
The Paper Kingdom
Author: Helena Ku Rhee
Publisher: Random House Studio
ISBN: 052564461X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
An office at night is reimagined as a fantastical kingdom of paper complete with friendly dragons in this own voices picture book. When the babysitter is unable to come, Daniel is woken out of bed and joins his parents as they head downtown for their jobs as nighttime office cleaners. But the story is about more than brooms, mops, and vacuums. Mama and Papa turn the deserted office building into a magnificent kingdom filled with paper. Then they weave a fantasy of dragons and kings to further engage their reluctant companion--and even encourage him to one day be the king of a paper kingdom. The Paper Kingdom expresses the joy and spirit of a loving family who turn a routine and ordinary experience into something much grander. Magical art by Pascal Campion shows both the real world and the fantasy through the eyes of the young narrator.
Publisher: Random House Studio
ISBN: 052564461X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
An office at night is reimagined as a fantastical kingdom of paper complete with friendly dragons in this own voices picture book. When the babysitter is unable to come, Daniel is woken out of bed and joins his parents as they head downtown for their jobs as nighttime office cleaners. But the story is about more than brooms, mops, and vacuums. Mama and Papa turn the deserted office building into a magnificent kingdom filled with paper. Then they weave a fantasy of dragons and kings to further engage their reluctant companion--and even encourage him to one day be the king of a paper kingdom. The Paper Kingdom expresses the joy and spirit of a loving family who turn a routine and ordinary experience into something much grander. Magical art by Pascal Campion shows both the real world and the fantasy through the eyes of the young narrator.
Night Shift
Author: Debi Gliori
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1471406571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
'Debi Gliori is amazing. Her pictures offer people an insight into depression that words often struggle to reach. She makes visible the invisible. And I for one want to thank her for that.' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive A groundbreaking picture book on depression with stunning illustrations. With stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori examines how depression affects one's whole outlook upon life, and shows that there can be an escape - it may not be easy to find, but it is there. Drawn from Debi's own experiences and with a moving testimony at the end of the book explaining how depression has affected her and how she continues to cope, Debi hopes that by sharing her own experience she can help others who suffer from depression, and to find that subtle shift that will show the way out. 'I have used dragons to represent depression. This is partly because of their legendary ability to turn a once fertile realm into a blackened, smoking ruin and partly because popular mythology shows them as monstrous opponents with a tendency to pick fights with smaller creatures. I'm not particularly brave or resourceful, and after so many years battling my beasts, I have to admit to a certain weariness, but I will arm-wrestle dragons for eternity if it means that I can help anyone going through a similar struggle.'
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN: 1471406571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
'Debi Gliori is amazing. Her pictures offer people an insight into depression that words often struggle to reach. She makes visible the invisible. And I for one want to thank her for that.' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive A groundbreaking picture book on depression with stunning illustrations. With stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori examines how depression affects one's whole outlook upon life, and shows that there can be an escape - it may not be easy to find, but it is there. Drawn from Debi's own experiences and with a moving testimony at the end of the book explaining how depression has affected her and how she continues to cope, Debi hopes that by sharing her own experience she can help others who suffer from depression, and to find that subtle shift that will show the way out. 'I have used dragons to represent depression. This is partly because of their legendary ability to turn a once fertile realm into a blackened, smoking ruin and partly because popular mythology shows them as monstrous opponents with a tendency to pick fights with smaller creatures. I'm not particularly brave or resourceful, and after so many years battling my beasts, I have to admit to a certain weariness, but I will arm-wrestle dragons for eternity if it means that I can help anyone going through a similar struggle.'
B Is for Bulldozer
Author: June Sobel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152057749
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
As children watch over the course of a year, builders construct a roller coaster using tools and materials that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152057749
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
As children watch over the course of a year, builders construct a roller coaster using tools and materials that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Astronomically Imperfect
Author: Tanushka Bhatnagar
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Quinn Thompson is a budding astrophysicist on her way to get a PhD at Harvard. Ethan Ford is her neighbour who, although she doesn't really know what he does, wears a lot of suits and looks like someone who could give Ryan Gosling a run for his money. She drinks cheap tequila. He drinks expensive scotch. She is a hopeless romantic. He is just hopeless. She loves pumpkin spice. He loves pointing out that there's no actual pumpkin in it. They are polar opposites. The only thing they have in common is their mutual dislike for each other. But when the one man, who might even make Ethan look like a saint, shows up to her Halloween party inviting her out to Las Vegas for an unofficial college reunion, she has no choice but to strike a deal with the bane of her existence a.k.a, Ethan Ford. What follows is a four day whirlwind of confused feelings, unlimited cocktails and lots of shirtlessness, with Quinn being left to doubt everything she knew...or at least thought she knew about the guy next door.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Quinn Thompson is a budding astrophysicist on her way to get a PhD at Harvard. Ethan Ford is her neighbour who, although she doesn't really know what he does, wears a lot of suits and looks like someone who could give Ryan Gosling a run for his money. She drinks cheap tequila. He drinks expensive scotch. She is a hopeless romantic. He is just hopeless. She loves pumpkin spice. He loves pointing out that there's no actual pumpkin in it. They are polar opposites. The only thing they have in common is their mutual dislike for each other. But when the one man, who might even make Ethan look like a saint, shows up to her Halloween party inviting her out to Las Vegas for an unofficial college reunion, she has no choice but to strike a deal with the bane of her existence a.k.a, Ethan Ford. What follows is a four day whirlwind of confused feelings, unlimited cocktails and lots of shirtlessness, with Quinn being left to doubt everything she knew...or at least thought she knew about the guy next door.
Night Shift Daddy
Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439221382
Category : Bedtime
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A father shares dinner and bedtime rituals with his daughter before going out to work the night shift.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439221382
Category : Bedtime
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A father shares dinner and bedtime rituals with his daughter before going out to work the night shift.
Nurse Mommy
Author: Kristyn Boland
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781645436560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
What does Mommy do when she goes to work? From giving medicine to listening with her stethoscope, Nurse Mommy's job is important because she helps people feel better. But what about her family at home--does Nurse Mommy really have to leave to go to work? Nurse Mommy helps young children understand what the nurse in their life is doing when they go to work at night.
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781645436560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
What does Mommy do when she goes to work? From giving medicine to listening with her stethoscope, Nurse Mommy's job is important because she helps people feel better. But what about her family at home--does Nurse Mommy really have to leave to go to work? Nurse Mommy helps young children understand what the nurse in their life is doing when they go to work at night.
By a Thread
Author: Lucy Score
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781399726887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over Dominic: I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day, but there's nothing innocent about Ally Morales. Maybe her colourful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine's offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by her brown eyes and sharp tongue. She's working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason. And I'm going to fix it all. Don't accuse me of caring. She's nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette. Ally: Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781399726887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over Dominic: I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day, but there's nothing innocent about Ally Morales. Maybe her colourful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine's offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by her brown eyes and sharp tongue. She's working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason. And I'm going to fix it all. Don't accuse me of caring. She's nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette. Ally: Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.