Dad
A big-hearted tribute to all kinds of fathers everywhere
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- Précommander
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- Sortie prévue le 14 mai 2026
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- 7,49 €
Description de l’éditeur
Dad is strong.
Dad is sweet.
Dad dreams of watching you grow . . .
There are as many ways to be a dad as there are dads in the world. Dad is a love letter to all of them. To the ups and downs, to the quiet and the loud – a loving celebration of the tender moments shared between a father and child.
Written and illustrated by the multi-award-winning Christian Robinson, Dad draws inspiration from the animal world to break stereotypes of fatherhood and pay tribute to the huge range of relationships dads have with their little ones.
Dad is loving, funny and big-hearted – the perfect evergreen gift for new fathers.
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Dedicated to "caregivers who give what they never got," Robinson's animal-centric ode to fathers moves with a realistically nuanced portrayal of parents as people. Narration unfolds through opposition: "Dad is here now" reads text accompanying a frog escorting tadpoles upon its back; "Dad had to go away" follows as two wide-eyed owlets gaze at an adult in flight. While a seahorse models a tender father-child moment ("Dad holds on tight"), a shark ("Dad needs lots of space") and other animals touch on the way a dad sometimes "lets you down,/ and makes mistakes." When concluding pages pivot to human relationships, the depth-filled and textured paint and collage artwork captures fatherhood with tenderness and honesty: one dad wipes away a child's tears, and another "sheds a few of his own." Even amid the examples' push-and-pull, an underlying message of steadying care reassures, "Dad is with you,/ even when he's not." Human characters are depicted with varied abilities and skin tones. Ages 3–6.
