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Daddy's Lullaby
When Daddy comes home late one night and discovers that the baby is still awake, he takes the infant on a magical nighttime stroll through the house and sings a loving lullaby, in an enchanting picture book that combines lyrical text with stunning illustrations. 15,000 first printing.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2002
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Tony Bradman
648 books43 followersTONY BRADMAN graduated from Cambridge University and worked in journalism for many years as an editor and reviewer. Now a full-time author, he has produced several successful anthologies for young readers for Random House Children's Books, including three focusing exclusively on football: the FOOTBALL FEVER titles.
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June 3, 2014
What a lovely book! The illustrations are wonderful, and perfectly suited to the story of a loving father coming home late at night and giving his little baby a tiptoe tour of the house to settle him back to sleep.
I love the realistic pictures. My toddler also liked the presence of the cat in most of them!
I love the realistic pictures. My toddler also liked the presence of the cat in most of them!
June 30, 2012
I bought this for Father's Day. It still makes me weep a little if I try to read the lullaby all the way through. Beautiful soft, yet life-like illustrations. A perfect story for our family: two boys, Mom, and Dad.
January 20, 2018
This book is a fantastic way to show fathers love and involvement. Children that have working father can relate to this book. It shows how fathers may take long at work but no matter how long they still love and care for their child. I would introduce this book in the class but wouldn't read it out loud because some children don't have daddy's.
October 8, 2017
Sweet little bedtime story book for small children. Reminded me a little of another childhood favorite, Love You Forever, though it wasn't quite as affecting to me. Still, I would enjoy reading it to my grandchildren, and hope they would enjoy hearing it from me.
April 19, 2018
great illustrations
July 6, 2019
Such a cute book!
August 29, 2019
A father returns home from work to find everyone asleep except the baby who needs comforting.
This one's fine, nice illustrations, but there's not much to the story.
This one's fine, nice illustrations, but there's not much to the story.
December 10, 2019
Such a beautiful book! I read it to my 10 month old and we both loved it! ❤️
November 7, 2020
This book is absolutely gorgeous. The artwork is spectacular and the story is adorable. It’s not often you find a treasure like this one.
April 20, 2022
Beautiful illustrations in a bedtime story for small children.
February 22, 2017
"Daddy's Lullaby" is one of those sweet sentimental books about a father coming home at night and finding his child awake. Through some cheesy prose, he takes the child downstairs and eventually falls asleep. The rest of the family finds them the next morning. Perhaps a good book to read to kids but not overly spectacular in my opinion.
April 1, 2010
Daddy's Lullaby is a calm, soothing book designed for very young audiences that could use a story of this type to help them get to sleep.
Daddy gets home from a long day at work to find that his family, with the exception of his little baby, is asleep. He takes the baby on an impromptu tour of the house to lull it into dreamland, showing the baby its Mommy and big brother, but the baby still remains awake. Then Daddy takes his baby downstairs and sings a lullaby, and both baby and Daddy fall asleep before the end of the song.
This is a nice book that makes up through its sweet tone and solid illustrations whatever it might lack in length. I would give one and a half stars to Daddy's Lullaby.
Daddy gets home from a long day at work to find that his family, with the exception of his little baby, is asleep. He takes the baby on an impromptu tour of the house to lull it into dreamland, showing the baby its Mommy and big brother, but the baby still remains awake. Then Daddy takes his baby downstairs and sings a lullaby, and both baby and Daddy fall asleep before the end of the song.
This is a nice book that makes up through its sweet tone and solid illustrations whatever it might lack in length. I would give one and a half stars to Daddy's Lullaby.
January 30, 2010
I got this out for Mike to read to Natalie just based on the title. It is very cute. Some of the situation pictured in the book is perfect for our family, and some of it is not. The first page is perfect, but their being an older child and that mother already being asleep when the father gets home, doesn't fit us (at least not at this time). However, the way the father interacts with the baby was very cute and fitting for us. When Mike read it, he also enjoyed it. We both really enjoyed the illustrations because they remind us of snuggling with Natalie. (I think that was Mike's favorite part).
March 8, 2013
I love the realistic, atmospheric illustrations in this book. I just melted paging through the images of a father snuggling his youngest child in the middle of the night.
The text itself is unfortunately a bit clunky when read aloud, and it makes me kind of sad that the dad in the book is getting home from work so late that his family is already asleep. (I'll hope for this fictional character's sake that it's not a regular occurrence and that he doesn't have to work so hard he misses all the waking hours with his family :-)).
Overall, though, this is a sweet book showing a dedicated and loving father.
The text itself is unfortunately a bit clunky when read aloud, and it makes me kind of sad that the dad in the book is getting home from work so late that his family is already asleep. (I'll hope for this fictional character's sake that it's not a regular occurrence and that he doesn't have to work so hard he misses all the waking hours with his family :-)).
Overall, though, this is a sweet book showing a dedicated and loving father.
October 16, 2014
Very restful and easy-on-the-eyes book that captures a "glad-to-be-with-you" attitude, even when it's late at night, even when a father is ready to be off duty. It feels like Cockcroft use a form of pointillism, which creates a kind of dreamy, ethereal atmosphere for the story. I'd like to try reading this with my grandson for a different perspective.
February 20, 2008
This was just adorable. I read the whole book thinking of my brothers who are fathers. I've seen each one show tenderness to their children. It melts my heart seeing the rough and tough boys now grown up into loving, caring fathers. I would like that in my husband.
May 1, 2011
I bought this for Father's Day. It still makes me weep a little if I try to read the lullaby all the way through. Beautiful soft, yet life-like illustrations. A perfect story for our family: two boys, Mom, and Dad.
May 4, 2011
I bought this for Father's Day. It still makes me weep a little if I try to read the lullaby all the way through. Beautiful soft, yet life-like illustrations. A perfect story for our family: two boys, Mom, and Dad.
June 28, 2008
A dad who has two sons and a cat, plus gets up with the crying baby at night while his red-haired wife snoozes?
What's not to like? :) This is my life!
What's not to like? :) This is my life!
November 5, 2008
Beautiful illustration of a good father. It gave me chills as I read it to my children and made me thankful for my husband who is a good father.
April 13, 2010
I just got this book from the library and I loved the illustrations. They are so beautiful! Very sweet book.
September 16, 2011
While this is a good book, filled with great illustrations, I do not recommend it for a classroom. Maybe for preschool if there is quiet/nap time.
January 27, 2012
This book is beautiful, tender! All parents of newborns, (especially dads) need to read this book. I wish it could come out in several editions, featuring fathers of color, too.
May 13, 2012
An Easter gift. It's a story about how the dad gets home from work and everyone's asleep but the baby. They spend some time together. The daddy takes care of the animals. Then he falls asleep.
August 6, 2013
Very sweet story of a father who comes home to a sleeping house, but finds the baby awake. He tries to get the baby back to sleep. Beautiful pictures.
September 18, 2013
A sweet bedtime story about dad and baby. Baby is wide awake and dad helps baby get to sleep. The illustrations are calm and easy on the eyes for bedtime. This is a great story for 0-5 year olds.
November 21, 2014
Daddies sing lullabies too. So SWEET!
January 10, 2016
very sweet. read to my niece while her daddy was away at officer training. reinforces the idea of a loving daddy.
June 14, 2016
An English picture book about a father who tends to his daughter (and pet cat) who are up late at night just as he is coming in from work. It's sweet and short.
February 29, 2016
The eyes in the illustrations so compelling
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