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Zolotow, Charlotte

A Father Like That

32 pp. | HarperCollins | May, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-027864-9 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-027865-6 $17.89
New ed. (1971)
(3) K-3 Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. A boy describes what his father would be like if he were around. The original edition's illustrations showed a middle-class suburban family with a stay-at-home mother; this new edition instead includes vibrant paintings of an African American family in an urban setting. It's a tribute to the universality of Zolotow's words that both interpretations convey the same longing and hope.
Reviewer: Terri Schmitz

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