Because Your Daddy Loves You

This book explains that no matter what you do, dad will always love you.
Source: Pierce College Library
Ages: 3-5

Because even when you mess up your Dad will stay calm and makes it all better. Great book about a father and daughter.

A remarkably patient father responds to each of his daughter's requests and crises - waking up from a nightmare, losing a shoe (underneath the bed), running out of energy on a beach-side walk - with understanding, and a can-do problem-solving attitude, in this sweet tribute to daddies everywhere. Rather than hurrying her along, when she lags behind, or scolding her, when she gets ice-cream all over herself, this daddy quietly sets out to solve the problem. Why? Because he loves her...

Chosen as one of our June selections, over in The Picture-Book Club to which I belong, Because Your Daddy Loves You is one of those books that, on the surface, seems like a complete charmer. A positive father-daughter relationship? Check! Cute-as-a-button illustrations? Check! I liked that the father depicted here was a little dumpy, and the child a little scruffy - they looked like real people. Sadly, they didn't feel like real people, mostly because I had difficulty imagining any parent being this patient. I finished the book with qualms, not just about its general lack of realism, but about the idea, communicated in the final sentence, that daddies are this patient because they love their children. Sometimes parents get impatient, and with good reason! Surely they love their children too? In the end, I found this one just a little too treacly for my taste... ( )

I think this would be an awesome gift from children to fathers. ( )

Even when you mess up, Dad stays calm and makes it all better. Great book about a father and daughter. ( )