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A Card For My Father Hardcover – Picture Book, May 8, 2018

by Samantha Thornhill (Author), Morgan Clement (Illustrator)

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2019 White Raven Selection from the International Youth Library

How can Flora complete her class assignment to make a Father’s Day card when she’s never met her father?

The first title in a trilogy of picture books exploring the lasting effects, big and small, of a father’s incarceration on his first-grade daughter, Flora. When Flora's class has to make Father's Day cards, she bonds with a classmate who also doesn't have a father and instead makes a card for President Obama. Desperate to know her father but afraid to ask her mother about him, Flora asks strangers and imagines myriad dads, but it's not until she asks her mother if she can send her father a card that Flora begins to understand, even if she doesn't quite know it yet. Graphic novel format perfect for young readers.

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"The beginning of a needed story."—Kirkus Reviews

"...brilliantly and beautifully told from the point-of-view of Flora Gardner, a little girl who has never met her father."—Raise Them Righteous

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2019 White Raven Selection. "Young Flora hates all the buzz about Father’s Day. How is she supposed to create a special card or attend a picnic for a person she doesn’t know anything about? Whenever she dares to ask her mom about her dad, she receives nothing but frowns, tears, and silence. Where is her father and why has he never visited his daughter? The touching text of this slim volume doesn’t reveal that Flora’s dad is in prison, yet the expressive cartoon-like illustrations eventually give a hint on the last page. This topical book provides a much-needed incentive to discuss imprisonment – but also absent fathers in general – with young readers."―International Youth Library

The beginning of a needed story. " ―Kirkus Reviews

"...brilliantly and beautifully told from the point-of-view of Flora Gardner, a little girl who has never met her father."―Raise Them Righteous

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penny Candy Books (May 8, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0998799963
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0998799964
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 - 11 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 720L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ Kindergarten - 4
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches

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Samantha Thornhill (she/her) is a published poet, author, facilitator and intuitive consultant. A born Trinidadian, Samantha migrated to the US at a young age. She received her BFA in English Creative Writing from Florida State University, and holds her Masters in Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Virginia. For 10 years she taught poetry and performance to actors at the world-renowned Juilliard School. She has also facilitated countless creative writing workshops for elders, inmates, and youth between the ages of 11-19. As a facilitator for the Dialogue Arts Project (DAP), she co-presented high level diversity and inclusion workshops in the highest levels of universities and non profits. In addition to her work as a creative writing practitioner, Samantha has professional roots in social work. For her formative years in NYC, she served as a program coordinator at the Children’s Aid Society in East Harlem, where she planned and executed after school and summer programming for pre teens and teens. In addition, she is an accomplished author, with ten published children’s books and a newly released poetry collection, The Animated Universe.