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Father's Day Book Pick: Buy Grandpa Time

JeanneSager — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:33:00 GMT

I've always been a fan of kids books for adults on holidays - especially grandparents who can very well buy themselves everything they've ever wanted . . . except time with the grandkids.

Just in time for Father's Day, Kristy Dempsey's Me With You offers grandpas plenty of time to cuddle on the couch with their favorite little munchkin.

A grandcub finds she's comfy just being herself with grandpa bear leading the way, in a story that's filled with gorgeous illustrations and the types of things grandfathers and grandkids do best (picking flowers, playing baseball, you name it . . .). Celebrating the special relationship between grandpas and grandkids, Me With You solves the bigger question - is there anything I can get him for Father's Day that he'll actually use?

How about time with his grandkids?

It's time they'll be looking back on when they paw through his shelves in twenty years so you can read it to their kids.

Though it's technically the tale of a girl cub, the story doesn't have a clear gender and some of the pictures are gender-neutral, which allows the book to find a wider audience. The simple rhymes put this at the earlier end of the four-to-eight age group recommended by publisher Penguin, but kids who enjoy snuggling up to grandpa will overlook the story and just enjoy the ride.

Check out the "video trailer" for the book and get it from Amazon!

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Book of the Week: Daddy Hug

editors — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:05:00 GMT

The world is made up of all kinds of dads -- busy, strong, slimy, wobbly -- and the new book Daddy Hug celebrates all of them. With charming, vivid illustrations of animal dads and their children, Daddy Hug goes through a litany of daddies that makes for a fantastic read-aloud. To wit, here's the text of a double-page spread with an otter dad on one side and a moose dad on the other:

Daddy squeak, Daddy chirp
Daddy hiccup, Daddy burp!

Yeah, it's not Proust, but it's much more fun at bedtime. The final illustration of all the animal dads hugging their progeny -- from raccoons to walruses -- is a Father's Day card unto itself. -- Gwynne Watkins

Daddy Hug (HarperCollins, 2008) by Tim Warnes and Jane Chapman is available for $11.55 on Amazon. You can also preview it at the HarperCollins website.

Book of the Week appears every other week on Babble.

Read These: Books That Soothe Parental Anxiety

martinimade — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Despite its Mother's Day peg, Ann Hulbert's book recommendations in this Slate.com column are exactly what most parents need in this age of hyper-anxiety and helicopter hovering.

Some of the titles speak for themselves, like David Anderegg's Worried All the Time and Grolnick and Seal's Pressured Parents and Stressed Out Kids. But Hulbert takes a lateral look as well, praising Benjamin Nugent's American Nerd: A Story of My People, which should be on your reading list just for the subtitle alone.

Frankly, it's a great list for Father's Day as well. Rather than view this round-up as past its expiration date, let's think about which as these titles you'll be getting the dad in your life (or for yourself, if you're a dad). Unless you really want to buy Pops yet another tie...

Daddy Author Offers Father's Day Book Contest -- Drinking Required

cryitout — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:56:00 GMT

One of my all-time favorite daddy writers -- Robert Wilder -- is ~~shamelessly promoting his book~~ holding a great contest about Father's Day stories. The winner receives a signed copy of "Daddy Needs a Drink" -- one of the most touching and hilarious paeans to parenthood I've read in a long, long time. I've already read it, and yet I'm thinking about joining this contest anyway.

All you have to do is submit a 500-word essay about your "favorite Father's Day story" by June 1, and you could find a copy of the book in the mail just in time for the Big Day.

As Wilder says, Estimated value of prize: $12.00. Estimated emotional value: priceless.

And it's true. I read the book last summer and found myself laughing out loud and tearing up. His tales of raising young Poppy and London, combined with recollections of his own childhood, offer some of the freshest, finest fatherhood writing out there.

(Full disclosure: We share an agent, but if anything that only makes me more unbiased, because I know Wilder is a shameless glory hog who takes up all the agent's time. What? You can't leave him time in the day to return one phone call? Selfish.) (Fuller disclosure: Yes, I'm kidding. This is a contest you must enter. Your favorite dad will not be disappointed with this gift.)

[UPDATE: Ooh, I just found out that Wilder will be a host on Kristen Chase's fabulous Blog Radio program on May 30. Check it out!]

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