SuitabookMy Dad Is the Best
Nic McPickle
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Expect affectionate family humour: a child’s perspective celebrates a dad’s jokes, songs and familiar habits, with animal characters helping express why their dads feel special.
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Nic McPickle
Expect affectionate family humour: a child’s perspective celebrates a dad’s jokes, songs and familiar habits, with animal characters helping express why their dads feel special.
Todd Parr
A bright, direct introduction to adoption and family belonging, using repeated language and diverse family images. Its emotional centre is welcome, but its one-sided account of need may not fit every family’s experience.
Sophie Beer
This is a gentle shared-reading book about families expressing love through ordinary care. Its main offering is visible family variety alongside repeated, concrete examples of affection, help and time spent together.
Justin Richardson
A gentle family story centred on two male penguins who care for an egg and raise Tango. Its main emphasis is belonging, parenting and adoption, with wider questions about what makes a family.
Simon Philip
This is a celebratory rhyming picture book about dads’ different skills, interests and ways of showing care, including playfulness, tenderness and resilience.
Ben Mantle
A warm, comic sibling story about loving someone while also needing space. Nano and Felix’s disagreement grows through exclusion, bad weather and hurt feelings, then moves towards repair.