"Lune loves hearing her daddy’s stories—the funny ones, the sad ones, the ones with lessons about truth and love. Whether evoking an ill-fated climb up a mango tree or life after a hurricane, flying over magical mountains or the healing power of a mother’s love, all of Daddy’s stories begin with “lakay”—back home—and each one ushers Lune to Haiti, her father’s homeland, a place she doesn’t know but can see, hear, and feel when she closes her eyes. Daddy is her favorite book, and sometimes she stays up late just to hear another story when he gets home from work. Everyone has stories, her mommy tells her, so Lune begins to wonder: could she have stories of her own, too?" -- publisher
Themes & Content
- Genres
- Fiction
- Central Theme Categories
- Centering Culture & Identity
- Content
- Diverse Families/Family Dynamics
- Languages & Communication
- Relocation Narratives
- School/Extracurricular Activities
- Traditional Cultures
- Settings
- Americas
- Ethnicity
- Haitian
- Immigration Representation
- Children of Immigrants/Second Generation
- Immigrants
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Sexual Orientation / Relationship Representation
- Heterosexual
- Race / Culture
- Black/African/African American
- Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
- Character Prominence
- Joint Main
- Secondary
- Illustrator Lived Experience
- Illustrator shares race/culture with main characters
