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Going Down Home with Daddy is a 2019 picture book written by Kelly Starling Lyons and illustrated by Daniel Minter. It tells the story of a young boy who attends a large family reunion at his great-grandmother's house and struggles to prepare a contribution to the family celebration. Inspired by Lyons's visit to a family gathering in rural Georgia, the book was published by Peachtree Publishing on April 1, 2019. The acrylic illustrations incorporate Adinkra symbols representing various concepts in Ghanaian culture. Critics praised the book's themes of family culture and heritage as well as Minter's illustrations, for which it received a Caldecott Honor in 2020. It also received the 2019 Lupine Award in the Picture Book category.
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- ↑ "Lupine Award History". Maine Library Association. Maine Library Association. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ↑ Bird, Elizabeth (15 June 2012). "Top 100 Picture Books #13: Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney". School Library Journal. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ↑ Book About Monhegan Wins the Lupine Award, Portland Press Herald, 18 Apr 1996.