A Card for My Father
Illustrator
Morgan Clement
Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780998799964
Pages
40 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
A Card For My Father by Samantha Thornhill with illustrations by Morgan Clement is the first title in a trilogy of picture books exploring the lasting effects, big and small, of a father’s incarceration on his first-grade daughter, Flora. In A Card For My Father, how can Flora complete her class assignment to write a Father’s Day card when she’s never met her father?
Grade Level
K-3; 3-5
Lexile Measure
720L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Incarceration; Biracial; Multiracial; father in prison; biracial child; multiracial community
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Black / White
Family Formation
single mother
Keywords
Father's Day; cards; imagination; class project; friendship; absent father; elementary school
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Thornhill, Samantha, "A Card for My Father" (2018). Diverse Families. 1824.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1824