Daddy's Home is a collection of poems documenting five years in the life of a stay-at-home dad. With a blend of insight, humor and heart, first-time author Paul DeBonis covers a wide range of topics that will resonate with anyone who loves children. Daddy's Home celebrates the many facets of parenting, most notably the experience of learning to see the world again, through a child's eyes.

A picture book of poems that celebrate fathers from a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor--winning poet. Who is your hero? Who’s your best friend? Who says he loves you again and again? Daddy! Told through the voice of a child, Anita Hope Smith's My Daddy Rules the World collection of poems celebrates everyday displays of fatherly love, from guitar lessons and wrestling matches to bedtime stories, haircuts in the kitchen, and cuddling in bed. These heartwarming poems, together with bold folk-art-inspired images, capture the strength and beauty of the relationship between father and child. A Christy Ottaviano Book

From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls "How the days went / While you were blooming within me"; Jorie Graham muses on her mother's sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in "Kaddish"; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother's empowering example- "Don't you fall now- / For I'se still goin', honey, / I'se still climbin', / And life for me ain't been no crystal stair." From Emily Bronte's "Upon Her Soothing Breast" and Seamus Heaney's "Mother of the Groom" to Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song" and Frank O'Hara's "Ave Maria," the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.

This is my poetry book that has Christian poems, love poems, fun poems, and poems that are now my new CD. There are even poems of future songs. And of course since I have dedicated this poetry book to my son Christopher who passed in 1996 at 13 years young. There are poems from me, and his mom, and his sisters about him our goodbyes. Something for everyone.

A book of poems close to my heart and into yours. Love, pain, suffering, joy, life, life, life!

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.