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I Can't Wait to Meet My Daddy

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I purchased this book for my son who is having his first baby. I read it before I gave it to him and I was in tears. it is so beautiful The pictures alone are lovely but the words....are precious. When I gave it to him, he was beside himself with joy. It was written all over his face....and in his voice. You must purchase it. You won't be disappointed.

I bought this book for my husband's birthday as a gift from our newborn son. The story brought tears to both of our eyes. I highly recommend this for any one who is going to be a father or already is one.

I bought this for my husband after the birth of our first child. He really liked it. THe illustrations are beautiful! I would definately recommend this book as a gift for any new dad!

I Can't Wait To Meet My Daddy by Kathleen Blease is an enchanting picturebook for very young children, that also serves as a wonderful gift for new and expectant fathers. The somewhat abstract, reassuring impressionist style of art by Bruce Fackenthal reinforces the simple message with vivid color. I Can't Wait To Meet My Daddy is a treasury of emotional warmth.

This book is beautifully written and illustrated in bright and bold colors. Each word touches on the unique relationship the child will have with his or her Daddy...sweet, tender, and fun moments to come.

I bought this book for our son as he awaits his first child. Wish the books were a pair...one for the mommy and one for the daddy, but since there wasn't a "mommy" one, I sewed our daughter-in-law a maternity top.

He loved the book. In fact our son immediately e-mailed his dad for some fatherly advice about games, hobby activities, etc.

The book is sweet, heart-warming, and beautifully illustrated. My only concern was that I felt there could have been a little more focus about the father-daughter relationship...it seemed sort of "son" targeted to me.

Still, it's a beautiful gift for the father-to-be.

I have purchased this for my husband as a Father's Day gift for the Father's Day before the baby is born (baby expected in 1.5 months). Overall, my husband is very excited about the baby and already we talk about what the baby could be thinking (if the baby could think in words), e.g., "yay! ice cream again!" or "ooh, what happens if I kick really hard over HERE?" For a dad who is already interested in the baby I think this is a great gift.

The book has 25 pages plus a final page that can be personalized like an invitation, e.g., "I can't wait to meet my daddy, [John Doe]. Let's meet on [due date] at [birth [place] with [Jane Doe]. Love, [Baby Doe]." The very first page is a note (almost like a letter) from the author to the new father that is sentimental without being too sappy. For example, "This person you helped make has never been before."

Each regular page shows a different impressionist style picture with about 5 lines of text, in a nice sized font (16?). The pictures cover the whole page (no "rim") and the same picture continues on the left and right page on each flip. The text is always on the right-hand page. The pages are a little glossy.

The text is written as if the unborn child were telling someone (or talking to him-/herself) about the anticipation of meeting Daddy. The text isn't a story, but more of a list of all the things the child can't wait to do with Daddy or what the child daydreams of doing with Daddy. There should be something for everyone in these ideas (looking at stars, writing the alphabet, reading the globe, riding a bike, adding 2+2, etc). Most examples are phrased like this example from page 13: "He'll show me how to plant a tree, and fly a kite, and catch a fish, and even, I wonder, how to ski." The examples also include examples of things Daddy will teach the child, questions he will answer (e.g., why worms live in the ground) as well as things they will do together.

The phrase "I can't wait to meet my daddy" repeats throughout the book, but not on every page. The book ends on a very positive note: "If I could meet him right now, I'd ask, 'Am I just like you?' I can't wait to meet my Daddy. I will someday soon. And we have oh so much to do!"

Because the book includes "Am I just like you?" it does have a subtle feeling that the child is a boy, like Daddy. This is to be expected, I guess, as the dedication is to the author's boys' father. However, there is no explicit mention of the child being a boy or girl and should be suitable for both fathers of boys and girls (see below about the pictures). There is no mention of any other children; it's all about Daddy.

The illustrations are in the impressionist style like the one on the cover. The nice thing about that style for this book is that it helps make the book very suitable for most families. For example, there is a picture of a lake and across the lake there are three people riding in a canoe, but it is ambiguous whether the child (the smallest person) is a boy or girl. Similarly, there is a picture of a child standing next to his/her dad at the beach (the picture shows the dad from shoulder down, so any hair color would fit) and the child is holding a seashell to his/her ear. Again, it is not clear if the child is a boy or girl, which makes the book highly gift-able. Each picture shows a different child with different hair color and features. The children are also different ages. The first picture seems to a baby's face, the next a toddler and I estimate the final pictures are children around age 4.

Such a beautiful story. I absolutely love the illustration! I shed lots of hormonally induced tears the first time I read it. Daddy-to-be liked it too.

I bought this book to give to my husband the night of my baby shower so he wouldn't feel so left out of the gift receiving business. He liked it, but I was crying my eyes out reading it to him! Gotta love those pregnancy hormones! I also read it with my 5 and 3 year old stepsons, asking them what types of fun things they do with daddy that their new little brother will like doing with him, too. All in all, the book was a little feminine considering it's for a daddy, but very, very sentimental and sweet.

I bought the book for my husband to read to our unborn daughter. I didn't know it was written for a child to actually read versus reading to the child. It's a nice book, just not what I wanted.