Cave Dada
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A hilarious book for new dads and their little loved ones to share and enjoy!
It's bedtime for Dada's little cave baby. But Baba wants a bedtime story, and not just from any book. Baba wants just the right book—and the right book means the biggest book! Poor Dada! The delaying tactics of his Stone Age darling may not speed up bedtime ... but they just might change the course of human history.
• Full of parenting moments that new or expecting dads will love
• Sweet, silly, and boldly illustrated—ideal read-aloud book to share with the family
• Perfect read for dad and child
Fans of Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada, Because I'm Your Dad, and Dad By My Side will love Cave Dada's positive, loving message.
• Great book for dads
• Books for kids ages 3–5
• Funny read-aloud
Brandon Reese is the illustrator of numerous books for children. His own adventures in fatherhood provided ample inspiration for this book. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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It may be the Stone Age, but it's the same old story: at bedtime, Baba is stalling by insisting their father read a book. "Dada tired. Hunt gather all day," says the weary parent. "Ug. Baba feel cry," says the savvy kid, who has three strands of hair and wears a fur diaper. Of course, Baba doesn't want any book but the biggest, and in this era, that means it's carved on huge stone tablets. Dad seems to know that nothing he does to postpone the inevitable meltdown including inadvertently inventing fire will relieve him of his duty, though "Dada feel cry, too." Working in earth-toned, digitized pencil and gouache, Reese (Oothar the Blue) mixes comics-style framing with generously scaled spreads (the baby's angry red face is particularly attention getting) to take parent and child from standoff to sweet, slumbery reconciliation. The story's elements don't add up to any big surprise (Baba is of course adorably asleep when Dada finally arrives with the book), but the prehistoric trappings add newfangled comic sheen, and the cave-speak dialogue (rendered in angular chiseled type) should make for a giggly readaloud. Ages 3 5.
