SuitabookFathers Are Coming Home
Margaret Wise Brown
- Reading
- Read the repeated lines aloud and let the child anticipate the pattern. Pause at the sailor’s return to talk together about what serving far from home might mean.
- Themes
- A repeated pattern of homecoming: Animal fathers return to their young, followed by a sailor returning from the sea to his son. The repeated, poetic form connects these different homecomings and gives the story a tribute-like shape.
- Worth knowing
- The final homecoming involves a father who has been serving away from his child. Consider whether this wartime separation may prompt questions about why families are apart.