Natalie Casale, Alexandra Belanich
Where Is My Daddy?
language
( Oct. 27, 2019)
The death of a parent is difficult for most people, but especially hard for children. As a widow mother, I have had to tackle explaining where daddy is to my young son, whose father died when he was four months old.
Where Is My Daddy? is a story about how a five-year-old boy makes sense of losing a parent, aimed at readers ages 4-8. This story helps introduce the idea of death to a child, but brings it up in a comforting way. Young children may not understand what losing a parent means, but they do understand that most other families have two parents who live with them. As a widow parent, my six-year-old son knows that he has a father, but doesn’t know where he is. He often thinks that every man he sees is his father. I believe this picture book will appeal to the countless families who have experienced the death of a parent or close family member.
My late husband passed away when my son was just 4 months old. He doesn’t remember his father in reality, so I thought it would help to explain what happened to his father with a book. I noticed that there weren’t any picture books about the loss of a parent told in a way that a toddler could understand. My story is different because it specifically focuses on a real-life child and questions that kids may have if they lost a parent that they never met.
Where Is My Daddy? is a story about how a five-year-old boy makes sense of losing a parent, aimed at readers ages 4-8. This story helps introduce the idea of death to a child, but brings it up in a comforting way. Young children may not understand what losing a parent means, but they do understand that most other families have two parents who live with them. As a widow parent, my six-year-old son knows that he has a father, but doesn’t know where he is. He often thinks that every man he sees is his father. I believe this picture book will appeal to the countless families who have experienced the death of a parent or close family member.
My late husband passed away when my son was just 4 months old. He doesn’t remember his father in reality, so I thought it would help to explain what happened to his father with a book. I noticed that there weren’t any picture books about the loss of a parent told in a way that a toddler could understand. My story is different because it specifically focuses on a real-life child and questions that kids may have if they lost a parent that they never met.
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