The Humpherys Family

The Fathers Are Coming Home
Record Added: 4/13/2012
Author 
Illustrator 
Setting United States
Topic Family
Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Boo
ISBN 0689833458   Year 2010
Age 4-8   Pages 32
Description Blue printed binding
  
So begins this lyrical tribute to all the fathers everywhere who come home to their children—from the rabbit father who hops home to his little bunnies, to the dog father who comes home to his puppies.

A never-before published work from one of children’s literature’s greatest writers and masterfully illustrated by a New York Times bestselling artist, this poignant story concludes with a young boy whose father is a sailor coming home from the sea to his son.
Notes
My opinion is that this little book was originally published in the 1940's when WWII was ending and the sailors and soldiers were returning home to their families.