Books with title A Lullaby for Daddy

When Daddy comes home late one Friday night, the whole family is fast asleep--except for the baby who's had a bad dream. Daddy takes the infant on a nighttime stroll through the house to soothe him back to sleep. After checking in on Mommy and baby's big brother, Daddy and his baby tiptoe downstairs where Daddy sings a lullaby, giving comforting reminders that Daddy will be there to protect and love baby always. Available for the first time as a board book, Daddy's Lullaby is the perfect bedtime story for daddies and their little ones.

A Lullaby for Toby is my new coming-of-age YA novel for teenagers 15 to 17. As seen through the eyes of the main character, Robin Steele, the story follows the high school senior as he tries to achieve two big goals: getting into college and being selected to solo in his high school choir, both of which become a lot more difficult when his little sister, Toby, disappears while they are on a family vacation in Maine. To add to his confusion, Robin meets a beautiful girl on the beach the day Toby disappears. But how can a guy think about romance when his little sister has just gone missing? As the day’s pass and Robin starts his senior year, he is increasingly plagued by questions about his own responsibility for Toby’s disappearance. What happened, and whose fault was it? Sometimes he hears his sister’s voice asking him to “look” at something. It’s the last words; he remembers her saying to him before he fell asleep on the island. A Lullaby for Toby is a character centered, family drama, about a teenage boy facing his first major life crisis, and the impact of that crisis on his family. Robin’s story plays out over a period of 8 weeks in Maine and Seattle.

The house is darkened and dad comes home at the end of the week. Everybody is asleep except for the youngest baby of the house. So dad picks him up and takes him on a journey through the sleeping house, looking in on the cat, brother and mum, until dad himself is so tired that he collapses with baby on the sofa downstairs, to be woken up, still there the next morning by the rest of the family! This is a supremely gentle and tender story. It is perfect for parents everywhere.