Suitabook
What is Daddy Doing?
All Children Reading - Cambodia
Credits & Licence
Originally published by The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read.
Brought to you by Let’s Read is a program of The Asia Foundation that supports early reading skills and habits to develop our next generation of critical thinkers and creative innovators in Asia and the Pacific. To read more books like this and get further information about this book, visit: letsreadasia.org. 14 Original Story What is Daddy Doing?. Author: All Children Reading - Cambodia. Illustrator: Yam Luy Chhuy. Published by The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read, © The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read. Released under CC-BY-4.0. This work is a modified version of the original story. © The Asia Foundation, 2020. Some rights reserved. Released under CC-BY-4.0. For full terms of use and attribution, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Contributing translators: Brendan Boland and Chheang Chansomey
author: All Children Reading - Cambodia. illustrator: Yam Luy Chhuy. translator: Brendan Boland, Chheang Chansomey. publisher: The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on Let’s Read: What is Daddy Doing? (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Use the repeated “What is…doing?” lines to pause and let your child identify each action from the picture before reading the answer. At the end, invite them to name a helpful task they choose.
- Themes
- Sharing household work: Daddy carries out several chores; Mommy then joins him in those tasks. The book says the parents always help each other. The story explicitly presents mutual help between the parents as a positive family practice.
- Children helping at home: The ending says the children help their parents with housework and asks readers whether they help and what they do. The ending encourages children to think of helping as part of family life.
- Worth knowing
- The story presents children helping with housework as part of family life. It does not say which tasks children do, or distinguish tasks by age or ability.