By Jeanne Willis (author) , Tony Ross (illustrator)
"A joyful celebration of the importance of letting go that will strike a chord for parents and children alike"
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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month May 2021
Award-winning Jeanne Willis perfectly captures a little girl’s excitement and fear as she works up to taking her first solo bike ride. She knows the freedom and exhilaration it will bring but a part of her remains almost too scared to try. Her daddy is reassuring and encouraging and full of good advice about bumps in the road that goes far beyond just the difficulties of bike riding!
At last, with daddy to keep her steady she is off! And she is flying! Now it is daddy who is worried…Will his little girl every come back now she’s got this taste of freedom? Tony Ross’s illustrations match the moments of exhilaration and anxiety perfectly making this a joyful celebration of the importance of letting go that will strike a chord for parents and children alike.
Daddy, Don't Let Go was originally published in 2012.
When a little girl is learning to ride her bike with her dad, she has all the usual trouble with balancing and control - but when all of a sudden she is speeding down the path, Daddy sees his daughter growing up fast, and he wonders whether he's really ready to let her go.
'Full of breezy exhilaration.' - Sunday Times
'A perfect book about learning independence.' - Publishing News
Jeanne Willis is an award-winning children's author and scriptwriter. She wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac).
She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.
Jeanne has won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize for Tadpole's Promise , the Nasen Special Needs Award for Susan Laughs , the Sheffield Children's Book Award for Who’s in The Loo and the Red House Children's Book Award for Bottoms Up . Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including Polly Pocket and The Slow Norris, and a pilot TV series for Dr Xargle .
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Daddy, Don't Let Go and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Daddy, Don't Let Go features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Stories about Family and Friends, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 3+ readers, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, PSHE: Family Issues, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Star Books, Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Daddy, Don't Let Go was written by Jeanne Willis and published by Andersen Press
Daddy, Don't Let Go has 28 pages
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