A Special Kind of Love
by Stephen Michael King
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A man who loves boxes finds a special way to let his son know he loves him.Tags
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In this book the author created a moving story about the special feeling a father has for his son. This book shows the strength of parental love and an affirmation that communication comes in many forms. This is a great book for children to understand the love of a parent.
A father has difficulties to expressing love to his song.
He find the way to do it by giving him things that he created out of boxes.
Age group: 3-5
Source: Pierce College
He find the way to do it by giving him things that he created out of boxes.
Age group: 3-5
Source: Pierce College
A book about a son and father. His father loves box's and has trouble expressing his love for his son. In the end the words I love you are said.
Tacoma Library Ages 3-5
Tacoma Library Ages 3-5
This book is about a father that has a special type of love for his son. Its a sweet book. A very colorful illustrations.
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Stephen Michael King won an Honour Book at the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards with his illustrations for the title Scary Night. He also won a Speech Pathology Australia 2015 Book of the Year Award in the Birth to three years category with his title Snail and Turtle are Friends. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original title
- The man who loved boxes
- Alternate titles
- Do you love me, Dad?; A special kind of love
- Original publication date
- 1995
- Dedication
- For Trish and Peter
- First words
- Once there was a man...
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But that never worried the man, because he knew they had found a special way of sharing their love for each other.
- Disambiguation notice
- The Man Who Loved Boxes was republished in America as "Do you love me Dad?" and also "A special kind of love"
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- Languages
- English, French, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
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