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Daddy's Girl
It is so sad to me that people can take what is such a beautiful natural everyday experience with a daughter and turn it into something negative and harmful. It's just like Seseme Street that has told Cookie Monster he must eat more than cookies or that Oscar cannot live in his trash can anymore because that would make him look homeless. Jim Hanson must be turning in his grave. It is only those adults who can somehow twist innocense into something perverse who see anything dangerous or wrong with simple truthful words.
Daddy's Girl
This was a fabulous book! I can't understand people these days reading so much filth into a sweet, well-written Children's book. I wish we could go back to the times the author lived! The world was simpler and not everyone was a child molester. For people to say that this book was terrible for those reasons, maybe they should keep reading the dumbed-down "appropriate" literature. Always an excuse not to see the world from a larger/different perspective. So unfortunate for their children. I grew up not far from where Keillor did and small town life is definitely a different perspective that fewer and fewer these days are able to wrap their heads around. Sad, really. My daughter loves when we say the French words with French accents, etc. This book is great for playing up the rhyme. I love it and so does she and I only wish that others could put down the perverse ideas they have in their head and read it as a true, meaningful, and sweet book.
Daddy's Girl
i bought this book for my husband on his first fathers day to read with our daughter. GK really nailed the beauty of the father-daughter relationship - thank goodness my husband can relate to changing diapers! i love the phrasing and am especially partial to the "you big-legged women" line, 'cause i know i passed my "thick" lower half down to my daugher ;) (not to mention that plump babies with big legs are adorable - the people with negative reviews sound a little off in the head to me). anyway, my husband can't read this with my daughter often 'cause he gets a little choked up. Daddy's Girl manages to hit simple & commonplace yet powerfully emotional notes at the same time, really charming. oh and this week when my husband couldn't read her stories at night, she brought this book to me and asked "daddy?" precious.
Daddy's Girl
Sweet book.Oh, you people who see anything else in this book could use some therapy!
Daddy's Girl
My nine-month-old daughter loves the singsongy rhymes of this book. (We have the board book without the CD.) We recite the diaper-changing rhymes to distract her on the changing table, and she loves the list of foods-- even though she doesn't know what "souvlaki" is, it's a fun, silly word. Nobody knows what a "wocket" is, either, but Dr Seuss is still a classic!The content is quite appropriate, and I'm really not sure how anyone could construe this daddy-daughter relationship as pedophilia. Merriam-Webster defines "ecstasy" as "intense joy or delight." My daughter certainly feels that way about bananas! I'm not sure how Keillor's use of the word could be categorized as "deviant", as some of the other reviews contend.One caveat-- if there are older siblings in the house, they're likely to pick up on the word "[...]" and run with it!
Daddy's Girl
I was really suprised to see so many negative reviews here. My whole family gets a kick out of this book. When I first saw the title "Daddy's Girl", I groaned inside. I was afraid it was going to be sickly sweet and tear jerking sentimental. Instead it is very real to life- this is how it is to have little kids people! You DO talk about wiping their bottoms, because you have to do it about 5 times a day for the next 5 years!(ever heard a parent refer to their little one's cute little "tushie"? Did you ever think they were a sicko for saying it?)I recommend this as a great book for the modern day, hands-on, involved in parenting like he is supposed to be kind of dad. (and the CD is great too)