Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Well-matched verse and art fuse simplicity and fancy in this warm companion to Momma Loves Her Little Son. Addressing his daughter, the narrator expresses his expansive, unconditional love: "Daddy loves his little girl,/ with arms spread open wide./ He cherishes the love you give/ and holds it deep inside"). As Cash's narrative takes off on an imaginative track, primitive, sunlit paintings transport father and child to "a far-off magic land" and to an exotic palace near Kathmandu, before an eagle delivers them home. The fantasy sequences are framed by handsome patterned borders, and effectively crackled backgrounds give both the real and imaginary settings a timeless quality. Ages 4-8. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by Horn Book Review
When you're up on Daddy's shoulders, / he'll raise your flag up high. / Around the castle he'll dig a moat / where gators can swim by." This homage to paternal love suffers from uneven, ungainly rhymes and an awkward narrative perspective. The crackled paintings, though static in terms of facial expression, are pleasant. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Cash follows up his purple tribute to the love between mothers and sons (Momma Loves Her Little Son, 2009) with an equally labored celebration of the father-daughter bond. With this effort, he (mostly) leaves behind opaque figurative language on his flight of fancy, but scansion and sense still frequently elude him: In Katmandu, Well feast on cakes stacked ten feet high, and dance to Bluebirds whistle. / Well run faster than the tiger through the flowers and the thistles. Burckhardts folk-artstyle images replicate the stiff tableaux of the companion title, offering little warmth to readers. It is a shamelessly over-the-top goo-fest that consistently reaches for the easy image with seemingly no regard to art or craft. (Picture book. 3-5)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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