SuitabookMy Dad Is the Best
Nic McPickle
- Reading
- Read it interactively: pause after each example to invite children’s reactions, then broaden “the best” beyond jokes towards the caring things adults do. Keep the fart joke light and optional.
- Themes
- Celebrating fatherhood: The book frames a child’s appreciation of a dad as a heartfelt thank-you and repeatedly presents him as exceptional. Affection for a dad is clearly the book’s endorsed emotional centre, though the complete range of family relationships is not known.
- Humour in family life: The dad tells bad jokes, sings old songs and blames the dog for bodily noises. The book presents this favourably.
- Animals as family voices: The book addresses animals as family voices; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. Animals appear to provide a playful way into the theme, but their individual experiences and narrative roles are not sufficiently detailed.
- Worth knowing
- Some children may enjoy the bodily joke about farting; others may not. The book’s broad celebration of dads may also prompt thoughts about different families or children who do not have a dad.