READ THIS: My Daddy Loves Clemson Football, by Michael Shoule @readtogetherbks
Previously on Whom You Know, we told you about My Daddy Loves Boston College Football. Obviously this book cannot be beat and we await Peachy Loves Boston College Hockey...and Basketball...and everything else she wrote about back then. Because not everyone is accepted at BC and since the author went to BC, we have expanded our horizons! Meet My Daddy Loves Clemson Football! Also Highly Recommended!
Of course, they are orange.
The kiddos of Whom You Know actually loved these illustrations more in this brand spanking new Clemson edition. The same spirit evocative of great American enthusiasm for the top sport that you all know and love with the Superbowl is celebrated for the Tigers in this new laudable work by BC grad Michael Shoule, Peachy's pal. See, it's never who you know it's WHOM YOU KNOW and while we are at it if you have teeth you should be going to Cosmopolitan Dental owned by our friend Garo, Peachy's BC friend and classmate. This is the perfect gift for everyone that went to Clemson and has kids of any age! School spirit matters and we love it.
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Brainwashing or indoctrination? Tomato, tomato? My Daddy Loves Clemson Football is a fun board book that tells the tale of a father sharing his love of his favorite college football team with his children. From tailgating to touchdowns and everything in between, each vibrant illustration shows another depiction of the bonding that takes place with a Dad and his children when they are rooting for the home team all season long. Knowing the importance of reading to his children as infants and toddlers to help them develop their vocabulary, author Michael Shoule got a bit tired of tales about hippos and horses. Upon attending his college reunion and finding nothing of interest in the campus bookstore, he took matters into his own hands thus providing countless fathers with a book that wouldn’t put them to sleep while they were putting their little one to sleep…and their significant others with the perfect Father’s Day gift.
My Daddy Loves Clemson Football
· Board book
· 10 pages
· ISBN 978-0-9822615-3-8
Brand History – Read Together Books
I still remember sitting on the couch in the den with my maternal grandfather listening to the Mets game on the radio before cable TV came to our neighborhood. He and my grandmother lived just one block away from us. He was originally a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and my paternal grandfather, who died years before I was born, was a New York Giants fan, but both of them became Mets fans once “their” teams deserted New York for the West Coast. As a result, my father was a Mets fan too and thus logically followed that the first-born son would be instilled with the same team loyalty. It is this fandom that I have tried to pass on to both my son and my daughter since pretty much the day they were born. And it is this bond around sports and other shared experiences that motivated me to start Read Together Books.
My first childhood Mets game at Shea Stadium is something I will never forget, and I consider myself very fortunate to have made countless trips to Shea since then with my Dad. Just before they played their last game ever at Shea, I brought Nate to his first Mets game and my Dad joined us as well. It was such a special day for me to be there with both my son and my Dad. There is something about sports that brings families together. It is this love for each other, the love of “our” team, and the bond that is formed rooting for “our” team that makes sports great.
Rewind to just over a year prior to that final trip to Shea. I was in Chestnut Hill for my Boston College reunion. From about three months on, every night my wife insisted that I read a book to our previously mentioned newborn before I put him in his crib. Not to sound like a bad father, but I couldn’t understand why I was wasting time reading a book to a newborn (heck, how was a Neanderthal like me to know their vocabulary forms at such a young age?). Needless to say, I was a bit frustrated with the repetitive task of reading about the same brown bears and pink pigs playing at parties every night. It surely put me to sleep even if Nate was still wide awake.
So, there I was at the BC bookstore looking to buy a BC book for our first child. Fortunately, as it turns out, there were no books that fit that description and so the labor of love that was My Daddy Loves Boston College Football and still is Read Together Books began.
This past fall Read Together Books published My Daddy Loves Clemson Football and our first paperback title I Love Going to the Bronx Zoo. More titles will be released this summer and fall.
