{"id":19647,"date":"2026-06-11T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=19647"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:03:56","slug":"books-for-fathers-day-for-kids-by-various-authors-and-illustrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/books-for-fathers-day-for-kids-by-various-authors-and-illustrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for Father\u2019s Day for Kids by Various Authors and Illustrators"},"content":{"rendered":"

c.2026, various publishers<\/strong><\/em>
\n$9.99 – $18.99\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>
\nvarious page counts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Terri Schlichenmeyer<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe Truth Contributor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Good old Dad.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s there for you every day, playing with you, tucking you into bed, teaching you to do fun things, helping you. He and Grandpa, they\u2019re the greatest – and this month, it\u2019s time to read books about the Dads and Father-figures in your life\u2026<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s your best buddy?\u00a0 You\u2019d probably say that your Papa is, and in Dear Dad<\/em>, illustrated by Natalie Lundeen <\/strong>(Flamingo Books, $9.99), you\u2019ll read a love letter to one youngster\u2019s father,\u00a0 a gator who is the little guy\u2019s \u201cfavorite dude.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a quick, colorful, adorable, fast-to-read story that\u2019s full of love and appreciation for fathers, and it\u2019s not just for preschool kiddoes, ages three-to-five. If you\u2019re an adult, it would be a heart-felt, tear-jerker of a gift for your Dad or Grandpa, too.<\/p>\n

For the child who loves doing things with Pop, then Haircut Day with Dad<\/em> by Monica Mikai<\/strong> (Crown, $18.99) is a book they\u2019ll want.<\/p>\n

Yep, it\u2019s time: his hair has grown a little shaggy and a little boy needs<\/em> a haircut. He and Dad want to look good, so they head to the barber shop to make sure they do. It\u2019s a day well-spent, too, and breakfast is first, because you can\u2019t have a haircut on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n

At the barber shop, the usual barbers are working and Dad sees some of his friends. They \u201csettle in and wait\u201d for their turn. Barbers are like magicians, and the boy and his dad feel like kings with capes around their necks. Pretty soon, they\u2019re looking \u201cfly,\u201d which is what you should do: fly out and find this adorable book just for boys ages five-to-eight.<\/p>\n

Okay, but what if you don\u2019t have a dad? Or he\u2019s not the dad you want?\u00a0 Then Just Right<\/em> by Torrey Maldonado, illustrated by Teresa Martinez<\/strong> (Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99) is exactly the book you want.<\/p>\n

Toby is sad. He picked out a special pair of socks for his Dad as a gift, but his father kind of ignored him. The socks were just another pair of socks to him, and Ma said that wasn\u2019t right. Neither was a nearby playground that was forever under construction, or the broken glass on his neighborhood\u2019s sidewalks, or the dirt or the noise outside his door.<\/p>\n

None of that is right, not at all.<\/p>\n

But you know what was <\/em>right? His mother\u2019s brother, his Uncle, who loves Toby so very obviously, and makes him feel special and exactly, a 100-percent right.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what you\u2019ll think about this moving book: it\u2019s what you want for your four-to-nine-year old, especially if there\u2019s no dad or grandfather in the picture this Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

If your child wants more books about Dad, Grandpa, Uncle or any other special man in their life, then head to your favorite library or bookstore and ask for help. The staff there will steer you toward the exact books you want for kids of any age and any situation, for birthday, Father\u2019s Day, or every day of the year.<\/p>\n

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c.2026, various publishers $9.99 – $18.99\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Good old Dad. He\u2019s there for you every day, playing with you, tucking you into bed, teaching you to do fun things, helping you. He and Grandpa, they\u2019re the greatest – and this month, it\u2019s time to read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[20],"class_list":["post-19647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book_review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19649,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647\/revisions\/19649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19647"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}