For Babies
and Toddlers
Baby
Dance by Ann Taylor
A board book in which an African-American father croons to his
baby daughter and dances while holding her.
( j Taylor)
Daddy is a Doodlebug by Bruce Degen
With inventive rhyme, a father and child bug savor the special
joys of companionship. ( j Degen)
Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti by Anna Grossnickle Hines
A board book with a dad food shopping, making dinner, and generally
being a househusband. ( j Hines)
The Daddy Mountain by Jules Feiffer
A little girl's step-by-step account of climbing all the way up
on top of her daddy's head. ( j Feiffer)
Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch
A very young bear describes all the activities he does during
the day that are just like his daddy's. ( j Asch)
Lots of Dads by Shelley Rotner & Sheila M. Kelly
Bright, joyful photos and a simple text show how dads are different
and special. ( j Rotner)
My Dad
by Debbie Bailey
A board book with photos of a variety of dads and children in
natural settings. ( j Bailey)
My Dad
by Anthony Browne
A child exaggerates the many wonderful things about his dad. (
j Browne)
Night Shift Daddy by Eileen Spinelli
A father who works the night shift has a special bond with his
daughter. ( j Spinelli)
On a Wintry Morning by Dori Chaconas
A graceful poem of a father and a baby bundling up for an early
morning outing. ( j Chaconas)
Pete's A Pizza by William Steig
A dad brightens up a rainy day with a fun game of making his son
into a pizza. ( j Steig)
A Special Kind of Love by Stephen Michael King
A father builds wonderful things for his son out of boxes as his
special way of saying "I love you." ( j King)
Tom and Pippo Read a Story by Helen Oxenbury
A father reads to his son, and then the boy reads to his stuffed
animal. ( j Oxenbury)
Two Homes
by Claire Masurel
A young boy enjoys the homes of both his parents who live apart
but love him very much. ( j Masurel)
What Dads Can't Do by Douglas Wood
A humorous account on how dads show love by explaining all the
things they can not do. ( j Wood)
For Ages
4 and Up
Animal
Dads by Sneed B. Collard III
Within the animal world, fathers have specific roles. (j591.56
Collard)
Carlos and the Cornfield / Carlos y la
milpa de maiz by Jan Romero
Stevens
In this English/Spanish bilingual story, a boy learns the meaning
of his father's statement, "You reap what you sow."
( j Foreign Language Spanish Stevens)
Dad and Me in the Morning by Patricia Lakin
A young deaf boy spends a glorious morning sharing the beauty
of a sunrise with his father. ( j Lakin)
Daddy Played Music for the Cows by Maryann Weidt
A daughter's memories of her father and growing up on the farm.
( j Weidt)
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
A child with divorced parents whose father is gay and has a roommate.
( j Willhoite)
Faraway Home by Jane Kurtz
A little girl in America worries as her father prepares for a
trip to visit his ill mother in Ethiopia. ( j Kurtz)
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
A father and son are homeless and living at the airport. ( j Reading
Rainbow Bunting)
How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort
When a father and son can't sleep, they take a long drive to the
country to count the stars. ( j Reading Rainbow Hort)
Just the Two of Us by Will Smith
A popular song adds to the story of a father's love as his child
grows from a boy into a man. ( j Smith)
Loon Summer by Barbara Santucci
A girl and her father spend their first summer at the lake without
the girl's mother. ( j Santucci)
My Father's Boat by Sherry Garland
A Vietnamese immigrant tells his son how he learned to fish from
his father. ( j Garland)
Night Driving by John Coy
A father and son drive into the night and watch for night animals,
swap baseball stories, and keep a lookout for eighteen wheelers.
( j Coy)
Owl Moon
by Jane Yolen
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek
into the woods to go owling. ( j Reading Rainbow Yolen)
Papa's Latkes by Michelle Edwards
A father and his two daughters try to make latkes and celebrate
on the first Hanukkah after the girls' mother died. ( j Edwards)
Reading with Dad by Richard Jorgensen
A father and daughter share the power and joy of reading together
from youth to old age. ( j Jorgensen)
Sammy Wakes His Dad by Pat Brisson
A father, who is in a wheelchair, is reluctant to join his son
in going fishing until his son's love finally moves him to action.
( j Brisson)
The Summer My Father Was Ten by Pat Brisson
A father tells his son the story of how he damaged a neighbor's
tomato garden when he was a boy and what he did to make amends.
( j Brisson)
Tell Me What We Did Today by Rick Kupchella
A father and daughter share special time reviewing the real and
made-up things that happened during their day. ( j Kupchella)
Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy
After a girl finds two old potatoes at her father's house, they
plant and tend them to see if they will grow new potatoes. ( j
Reading Rainbow Coy)
Visiting Day by Jacqueline Woodson
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
( j Reading Rainbow Woodson)
The Wall
by Eve Bunting
A little boy and his father visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in Washington, DC to find the name of the boy's grandfather. (
j Reading Rainbow Bunting)
When Dad's at Sea by Mindy L. Pelton
A soldier's daughter worries about her dad on his mission far
away from home. ( j Pelton)