Room for a Stepdaddy - Hardcover

Cook, Jean Thor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807571067 ISBN 13: 9780807571064

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co, 1995

Synopsis

Joey lives with his mother and his stepfather, Bill, and over time and with the help of Mommy, Daddy, and Bill, Joey learns that he can love both Daddy and Bill at the same time.

About this title

About the Author:

Cook is an Albert Whitman author.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-K--Joey's stepfather, Bill, tries to make friends, but the boy wants his real father. It takes most of his kindergarten year for him to understand that all the adults in his life love him and that he, too, has enough love to go around for all of them. When the winter holidays come, he prepares gifts for his mother, father, and stepfather, and the story ends with Joey snuggled up with Bill. His mother has very little presence in this story; she is mostly seen hovering in the background of the pleasant, colored-pencil illustrations. Instead the book focuses on the relationship between the boy and his two male role models. Although this is a simple, rosy picture of how reconstituted families manage to adjust, the basic message will be reassuring for youngsters who think that physical distance from loved ones cancels out affection. Palatable bibliotherapy.

Rosanne Cerny, Queens Borough Public Library, NY

Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0807571067
• ISBN 13: 9780807571064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Gourbault Martine