I Want My Dad! (Little Princess)

by Tony Ross (Author) Tony Ross (Illustrator)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Little Princess

The Little Princess is jealous of her friends--they all have dads who can do amazing things.

The Cook bakes incredible cakes; the King always burns his. The Gardener takes his daughter on adventure-walks through the forest; the King gets lost on his way to bed.

The Maid can teach the Little Princess to bake and she can take her for a walk, but will it be the same without her dad?

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Ross's pint-size Little Princess wishes that her dad, the King, could be more like other fathers--a ragtag group of palace employees. While the Cook bakes his son elaborate cakes, "even the dog would not eat the famous burned-black cakes that her dad baked." The General teaches his son to ride a pony, but the King is allergic. The Admiral teaches his daughter to swim; the King wears water wings in the bath. The Gardener takes his children on forest adventures, but "the King got lost on his way to bed." Under the tutelage of an overzealous maid, the Little Princess learns to bake, swim, and ride a pony and goes for a nature walk, all with disastrous results, leading her to embrace her dad and all of his humdrum habits. Ross's idiosyncratic royals and distinctive pencil and watercolor art relay the message that there's no father like one's very own. Ages 5-6. (Mar.)

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Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781541514539
Lexile Measure
480
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Andersen Press
Publication date
May 01, 2018
Series
Little Princess
BISAC categories
JUV013060 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents
JUV034000 - Juvenile Fiction | Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.)
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Fathers and daughters
Princesses
Kings, queens, rulers, etc
Kings and rulers
Catholic Library World

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