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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...

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...

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...

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...