Customer Reviews

Daddy's Girl

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This book is very sweet and is written by someone who is old enough to remember what life was like before everyone became so freaked-out about every little thing. When you read a line like, "Lift up her legs and take off the diaper; Get a damp cloth and carefully wipe her," do you really think there is something perverse about that? What planet are you from?? I am lucky to be the daddy of a 2-year-old girl. Diaper changing is a fact of life. Every day for the last 2 years I have lifted her legs, removed her diaper, and carefully wiped her with a damp cloth. If you walked up to me on the street and told me that I'm a pervert for changing my daughter's diaper, I would punch you in the mouth. Anyone uncomfortable with a line like that is a goofball.

Oh, and here is how my dictionary defines the word "ECSTASY":

1. rapturous delight.
2. an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.
3. the frenzy of poetic inspiration.
4. mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of divine things.

Ecstasy is a word that is only 'dirty' for those who WANT it to be dirty. If you insist that there is a sexual connotation whenever the word "ecstasy" is used, you are the weirdo. Like I said before, the author (born in 1942) comes from an era where people used words like "banana" and "nut" and "meatball" and didn't automatically think about sex. Some of these reviewers have watched Austin Powers a few too many times.

One more example -

"Of all the babies you're the fattest one; You big-leg women are a load of fun".

Today when people hear the word "fat" they think about morbid obesity, apparently. Baby-fat is cute and healthy and normal. The whole world loves an adorable little chubby baby. I believe that the author uses the phrase "you're the fattest one" in a loving and proud way, as if saying, "you're the cutest one". And in that context, the phrase "you big-leg women are a load of fun" is just a silly thing to say - and far from inappropriate.

I would agree with the people who suggest reading this book in a library or bookstore first. Why? One reviewer said that they bought the book and hated it so much that they were going to throw it into the trash rather than donate it to charity. If you're that idiotic, please, please, read the book first, and don't buy it. Don't put it into the garbage and send it to a landfill. Don't stage a Nazi-style book-burning. Just leave it in the store and go back to watching your Austin Powers movies.

I saw Mr. Keillor at a reading of this delightful new book in New York, and he's one of a kind! This book is funny, clever, and truly captures the spirit and depth of feeling that a father can have for his child. The illustrator captured the Upper West Side gorgeously - like Woody Allen makes you see the City with charm. The CD that comes with the book of Mr. Keillor singing these songs will have you singing and dancing along with with the text. I will be buying this book for Father's Day for my Dad and all the other great Dads I know to share with their daughters.

If you've never watched a father interact with his young daughter, you have missed a delightful treat. There aren't many things as sweet as the love a father has for his daughter as he watches her in day-to-day activities. The love returned from the daughter is almost one of adoration. Such is the sentiment of Garrison Kellor's children's book DADDY'S GIRL. In it, he shares four stories in which a father celebrates moments of quiet time, taking walks, dining, and dancing with his little girl. The joy of fatherhood bounces off the pages and into the reader's heart.

Robin Preiss Glasser's illustrations set this book off perfectly, with her depiction of the little girl in various poses of exuberance and the father glowing with pride. I loved it! Adding to the charm of this book is an accompanying CD which includes several of the stories/verses put to music that is catchy, a bit jazzy and fun to listen to and sing along with. DADDY'S GIRL was a fun, delightful, and heart-warming read. I look forward to sharing it with my husband and our daughter -- a definite Daddy's girl!

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers

When I first saw this book I thought it would be full of "sugar and spice" sentiment - a perfect companion for quiet daddy-daughter moments before bedtime, etc. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that an altogether different type of feeling was addressed: those times when you think you will positively explode with the joy and excitement of having a little girl that calls you daddy. By itself, this superbly-illustrated book captures the essence of these moments, but, for me, the whole experience is brought to life by singing along with the CD. The one small issue I would have with the product is that there 4 songs in the book and 4 tracks on the CD, but one of the songs in the book isn't on the CD and vice versa - not that this really lessens the enjoyment. Buy this book and put a smile on your face.

I purchased this book for my husband and daughter after leafing through it at the store and seeing "Bananas," which seems to describe our little one perfectly! I didn't even notice it was by Garrison Keillor, a master storyteller, until later. It immediately became my husband's favorite book to read to our babe. The poetry is witty, intelligent and true. The negative reviews of this book sicken me, honestly... anyone who finds this book perverted must have some serious underlying issues. I see absolutely nothing wrong with rhyming about a diaper change ("beautiful baby with a nice clean butt"), a man feeding his daughter bananas, or a line like "you big-legged women are a load of fun," which we thought was very cute, on account of the chunky thighs of little ones, ours included. I suppose those who want to be offended will be.

This is a wonderful and innocent book about the love and everyday lives of fathers and daughters. Please, do not be put off by a couple of small-minded paranoids.

This is a very cute book! The sentiment is sweet, the wit is classic Garrison Keillor and the illustrations are wonderful. My 2.5 year old daughter loves to dance to the songs on the accompanying CD. You won't be disappointed.

I absolutely love this book! My hubby and I love Garrison Keillor. Some friends of ours got it for my daughter for Christmas and it is one of our favorite books! I love the pictures, I love the lyrics. I love everything about it. The CD is an added bonus.
I actully get a kick about his comments on baby legs and the pictorial reference to his wife's legs. It is great!
My daughter loves bananas. They have been her favorite since we first introduced them. She is now two and we are still able to use them as "desert." So we love reading that one to her. She laughs and thinks the whole thing is silly.
I almost always cry on the last one. Even now it saddens me that she will grow up and leave us for the wide world one day. It also saddens me, because it reminds how very far I live from my daddy and how much I love him.
It is a great book. The lyrics are completely child appropriate. (The comments to the contary were hard for me to understand at first. I had to read them several times over before I could even come up with what was wrong with bananas.) I highly recommend it. It is a beautiful representation of how beautiful and special the daddy daughter relationship can be.

Garrison Keillor, of "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show fame, has written an incredibly beautiful story, dedicated to his own daughter, that takes place in a very colorful Paris (or another city in France). The "daughter" in the story is a very young girl who notices and delights in the people and places she encounters on walks through the town with her daddy. Mom is never shown or referred to, just a delightful relationship between father and daughter. I bought this book for my son-in-law as he became a first-time daddy to a new daughter on June 1st (of 2006). The story brought tears to my eyes and he was thrilled to get it. It is a beautiful hard-bound book that would make a great addition to any child's (or parent's) library, and would make any little girl feel very special if her daddy reads it to her.

This book is so sweet. I bought it for my husband for Father's Day and my daughter gets such a kick out of it when he reads it to her. However, the board book does not come with a CD which was very disappointing to me. I will just have to buy the hardcover as well I guess.

PS
I can't believe the people who are reading into the words of this book with sick minds. Obviously those people do not have kids because if they did they would know how you make up songs for just about everything you do with them. These are nothing but sweet stories of changing a diaper and little fat baby legs, not perversion. Get a life.

This was a fabulous book! I can't understand people these days reading so much filth into a sweet, well-written Children's book. I wish we could go back to the times the author lived! The world was simpler and not everyone was a child molester. For people to say that this book was terrible for those reasons, maybe they should keep reading the dumbed-down "appropriate" literature. Always an excuse not to see the world from a larger/different perspective. So unfortunate for their children. I grew up not far from where Keillor did and small town life is definitely a different perspective that fewer and fewer these days are able to wrap their heads around. Sad, really. My daughter loves when we say the French words with French accents, etc. This book is great for playing up the rhyme. I love it and so does she and I only wish that others could put down the perverse ideas they have in their head and read it as a true, meaningful, and sweet book.