Frank Carlson Library

In illustrations and verse, lists some of the many ways a father, whether pilot or baseball player, could show his love for his child.

"After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land--his time, his health, his family--with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The Plan--the detailed blueprint for high school that will help her...

A young elephant and his father spend Saturday running errands, sipping lemonade, and having a cookout.

"For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life...

A group of children tries to capture the daddysaurus, a mystical creature capable of kindness, bravery, and fun.

"Ethan knows that killing animals for fun is against the Hunter's Code. Or does he?"--Unedited summary from book.

A father tells his child about his love, fear, and joy in being her parent.

Every Friday a father and his child share a special ritual.

Releasing in time for Father's Day, Made With Dad features fifty unique, fabulous projects for fathers to make with their children. Projects include everything from samurai swords to pocket-size dolls, wizard wands to paper zoos. All projects can made from affordable, easy-to-find items-often regular household ones already owned. Full-color photographs, line drawings, and detailed instructions provide an easy, visually lush, and family-friendly manual. This...

"Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loud father-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious, quality."--