Back Home: Story Time with My Father

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A lyrical text and vivid, luminous imagery transport readers to Haiti through a fathers tales and a childs imaginationand invite them to tell stories of their own.

Krik! Krak!
This is how story time begins.

Lune loves hearing her daddys storiesthe funny ones, the sad ones, the ones with lessons about truth and love. Whether evoking an ill-fated climb up a mango tree or life after a hurricane, flying over magical mountains or the healing power of a mothers love, all of Daddys stories begin with lakayback homeand each one ushers Lune to Haiti, her fathers homeland, a place she doesnt know but can see, hear, and feel when she closes her eyes. Daddy is her favorite book, and sometimes she stays up late just to hear another story when he gets home from work. Everyone has stories, her mommy tells her, so Lune begins to wonder: could she have stories of her own, too? Author Arlne Elizabeth Casimir offers a love letter to her parents birthplace and to the ways storytelling can bring us together, illustrated in lush, enchanting colors by acclaimed artist Ken Daley. Included is a glossary and two authors notesone to caregivers and teachers, one to kidsproviding ideas and encouragement for sharing the power of story.