Dads
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Dads on the Picture Books They Love Reading to Their Kids
There's nothing like witnessing a cherished memory being made. We asked 13 dads to talk about their favorite picture book to read to their kids.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
28 Sweet Picture Books That Celebrate Fatherhood
Finding the right present for the dads in your life can be a challenge. These delightful picture books make for a thoughtful, personal gift dads will love.
All Ages
Adventures in Fatherhood: 11 Unique Parenting Books for Dads
These wonderful books speak to the logistics and the emotions of becoming a dad, offering some reassurance for nervous fathers-to-be.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Brightly Storytime: How to Cheer Up Dad
Settle in and enjoy How to Cheer Up Dad, a heartwarming and comical picture book that is perfect for reading aloud with dad on Father’s Day and all year long.
Just For Fun
My Kid Won’t Read the Books I Pick Out for Her Anymore and It’s Bumming Me Out
One father comes to terms with his conflicted feelings about his daughter’s quiet transition to making reading decisions on her own.
Just For Fun
One Dad’s Reading Resolutions for the New Year
I resolve to encourage my daughter to read out loud to me more often, because it still amazes me that the little baby I used to hold can read a whole book on her own.
Just For Fun
I’m Nearing the End of Bedtime Reading with My Daughter and It’s Breaking My Heart
I can feel time creeping up on us. And lately it’s been hitting me in an unexpected location. Bedtime reading.
Just For Fun
An Illustrated Guide to the Best Places to Read with Children
When my daughters were young, we read all over the city. They are older now, and read without me, but I hope that these places where we used to read, and the books we read there, will stay with them.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How I Learned to Curb My Parental Expectations and Love the Boy I Got
Here are five common expectations about raising children that I frequently heard from parents, things many of us think we want for our kids, and the realities of each.
Grown-Up Reads
5 Things I Never Expected to Love About Being a Dad
I always imagined that I would have a son — but, instead of sons, I had three daughters. And from the time they came into the world, bright pink and bawling, I never looked back, not even for a moment.
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
Braving It: 14 Books That Teach Children to Be Adventurous
When James Campbell's daughter turned 15 they began a trip into the heart of Alaska. But the seed of adventure was planted years before — with the books they read together.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How Writing Helps Me Overcome Parental Anxiety
Author Jason Gurley shares how, since becoming a father, storytelling and writing have kept his parental anxieties at bay.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Letting It Be: Why I Stopped Trying to Change My Kids
Claude Knobler recounts his father's journey to find where he fit in the world, and how that story inspired Claude to accept his son's reading struggles.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Our Favorite Picture Book Dads of 2015
Contributor Tom Burns shares his picks for the best, most realistic, wonderfully flawed, and funny dads featured in picture books in 2015.
