Amazing Daddy - Rachel Bright
“Amazing Daddy” by Rachel Bright features a little panda and his daddy. Starting with the line “My daddy is a hundred things, A hundred things and more!”, the book perfectly captures the essence of the fun yet loving relationship between the little panda and his daddy. Beautifully illustrated and full of humour, this rhyming book really appealed to me and the Mini Reviewers. They could relate to the similarities between daddy panda and their own daddy. For example, calling him at work, their bedtime routine, playing all day with him, the shoulder rides and even his grumpy morning face!
Izzie (4) found this picture of the “extra large” stack of pancakes hilarious and exclaimed “just how is he going to eat all those?”
Theo (2) loved the double page spread of the “hundred” things daddy does. He enjoyed saying what they were doing in each tiny illustration.
Poppy (8 months) was drawn in by the bold and bright pictures. Overall this is a great, quirky book and is one of our current favourite reads.
I Love My Daddy - Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
Such a gentle book with lovely illustrations from Emma Dodd. The Mini Reviewers love this story because the daddy was just like their daddy he plays horsies, makes the best pancakes and he even had a prickly chin!
My Dad Will Do - Martin Thomas
This is a simple, yet lovely story about a little elephant's relationship with his Dad. The little elephant is finding it difficult being small as everything is out of reach but he realises when his Dad is close by, anything is possible. All three Mini Reviewers love this story and because it's full of rhyme and repetition, they can easily join in. Theo was delighted when the Dad lifts up the little elephant at the end.
Peppa Pig: My Daddy
In this funny book, Peppa tells us all about her daddy and of course, “He is the best daddy in the whole wide world!” Based on the popular T.V series it includes all the main characters and will delight any little Peppa fan. As you can see, it certainly delights Mini Reviewer, Theo.
5. Bing: Something For Daddy!
This book is perfect for any Bing fans. It is bold and bright but best of all it is full of Bing and Flop. In the story Bing makes a shiny, feathery, sparkly, sticky, gooey thing for Daddy but uh oh, he has an accident with the "goo". The book has been a massive hit with the Mini Reviewers, especially Theo who adores Bing. I am not particularly keen on it as there isn't much of a story. Also I think some of the words are a bit dubious, for example, I'd much rather it said "glue" than "goo" - but I’m sure that it's just a Bing thing!
If you like these recommendations, we have also already reviewed these daddy-themed books:
Do you have any suggestions to add to our list of daddy books?
Great selection! We also love Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada by Jimmy Fallon and I love My Daddy by Jonathan Litton. We did a similar post for Fathers Day! http://bookbairn.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/your-babys-first-word-will-be-dada.html
ReplyDeleteSee I was a bit too slow for Father's Day. Great post :)
DeleteI love the picture of Poppy sleeping with the book :o)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite picture book Dad is Stick Man! We included more of our favourites in a Fathers' Day post too - http://storysnug.com/2014/05/picture-book-dads/
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Perfect - Stick Man! We've recently done the trail in the Dalby Forest,the kids loved it :)
DeleteSuch a lovely selection of books for kids to enjoy with their dads :) Thanks for sharing with #ReadWithMe
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. Thank you for hosting!
DeleteAww this is a great idea for a blog post! We have one daddy book and I must say it is my husband's favourite one to read to our kids. These would make great gifts too!
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Tori @ The Mama Nurse
Great gifts for new daddies everywhere :) Thank you for stopping by :)
DeleteWe really like I Love My Daddy too and of course we also have I Love My Mummy to go with it!
ReplyDeleteLovely selection of Daddy books, I will keep them in mind for Father's Day.
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We only have 'I Love My Daddy' out of those so far! Will definitely have a look at the other ones now though! #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteOh yes do James and let me know how you get on :)
DeleteI love this selection of books! They're beautiful and that first pic of baba asleep with the book is just so cute #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteAw thanks Ger, thank you for stopping by :)
DeleteI love the Peppa Pig one! As our surname is Hogg I sometimes call Jonny Daddy Pigg - I might need to get it for him! #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteHaha yes most definitely :)
DeleteOh I've never heard of that Bing one...my girl is a Bing addict so I'll hunt it down! Thanks for linking up to #KCACOLS hope you come back again next Sunday! x
ReplyDeleteOh yes my little boy has to watch Bing daily. We even went to meet him :) There are quite a few Bing books now too!
DeleteSome lovely booked here! We have a spot the dog set which has a story about mummy, daddy, grandma and grandpa and Arthur loves it - especially at the end when it says 'I love you dad' (we change it to daddy). Thanks for linking up to #KCACOLS hope you can come back again next Sunday
ReplyDeleteWe just love Spot The Dog :)
DeleteWhat a lovely selection of books! Ours have an 'I Love My Daddy' book with forever friends bears that is a firm favourite so I am sure they would love these! #KCACOLS
ReplyDeleteForever Friends :) I used to love them. I'll keep an eye out!
DeleteThese are great reviews, they all look lovely. We like pandas in this house so the Amazing Daddy book looks especially brilliant! #KLTR
ReplyDeleteAmazing Daddy is lovely and yes great for panda fans:)
DeleteWhat lovely books. I think the pepper pig book is fab. We didn't read much about daddy's when Sylvia was little as I was divorced and a single mum. I see it being really useful though and a great selection for little ones. thanks for linking up to #KLTR
ReplyDeleteI'll do a post on Mummy books for you Angela :)
DeleteWhat a lovely idea for father's day I had never thought of getting a book about Daddy but that's a great idea. We've missed it this year, but one to bear in mind for next year. Thanks for linking up to #kltr
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