Knock Knock

My dad's dream for me

About this book

Every morning, I play a game with my father. He goes knock knock on my door and I pretend to be asleep till he gets right next to the bed. And my papa, he tells me, “I love you.” But what happens when, one day, that “knock knock” doesn’t come? This powerful and inspiring book shows the love that an absent parent can leave behind, and the strength that children find in themselves as they grow up and follow their dreams.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • boys
  • children's fiction
  • fatherless families
  • fathers and sons
  • fathers and sons, fiction
  • father-son relationship
  • fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • loss (psychology)
  • separation (psychology)
  • single-parent families