Winner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal and the Boston Horn Book Award A simple, powerful book for children, about an absent father and the love he leaves behind Every morning, I play a game with my father.He goes knock knock on my doorand I pretend to be asleeptill he gets right next to the bed.And my papa, he tells me, "I love you." But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring book shows the love that an absent parent can leave behind, and the strength that children find in themselves as they grow up and follow their dreams.

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• Children's eBooksGeography & CulturesMulticultural StoriesBlack & African American
• FranceFriendship, Social Skills & School Life(Current)Boys & Men
• France

• Publication Date: December 17, 2013
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 44 Pages
• File Size: 235 KB