My Dad Is Not With Us

My Dad Is Not With Us is a breakthrough book exploring and explaining the workings and compositions of the uncommon family. A former poem by Dianne R. Swann is coupled with illustrations by her brother Willie L. Buckhanon Jr. to create My Dad Is Not With Us. My Dad Is Not With Us explores many of the reasons why Dad is absent. My Dad Is Not With Us is a story told from the child's perspective and as is oftentimes seen in real life, the child is making excuses for the adult. In My Dad is Not With Us, the sister and brother team of Dianne R. Swann, the author, and Willie Buckhanon Jr., the illustrator, use their experience of being raised by a single parent to create a painfully real, and touching story of one of the many questions a child from a single parent household has to answer. My Dad Is Not With Us is destined to become a classic in the households of the fragmented families of our time.