Dad, Who Will I Be?

by G. Todd Taylor, Jorge Hernandez (Editor), Delayna Robbins (Illustrations)

Dad, Who Will I Be? is written by G.Todd Taylor, a former educator and child mental health expert with over 20 years of experience. This book inspires, encourages and educates young readers to be great by introducing to them heroes of color from a number of different professions on an elementary level. Some real-life heroes in the book include Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammed Ali, Mansa Musa, Guion Bluford and Garrett Morgan, W.E.B. Dubois, Tiger Woods, President Barack Obama and many more. Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu says "This is a fantastic book for children! Children need to have goals and a purpose in life. They need to have their career range expanded. Children need to hear it from their fathers. Garrett truly needs to be commended."

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 19, 2016

Reviews

[Jasmine Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like the way the author helped his son know that all those great leaders he mentioned were great, but that the most important thing was for him to be who he wanted to be. I also liked the character descriptions at the back of the book.

[Diane Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an awesome book that educated and inspired our son.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very affirming and a history lesson to boot!

[Mary Luzader · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like the message of this book, and if I was only rating it for the story, I would probably give it a 4. But the illustrations and layout of the book made it hard to enjoy for me. It actually felt like the pages were not put in the book the right way (ie pages that should have been facing each other were back to front). I wanted to like it, but it was hard for me to get past those things.