Younger Fiction

• Baptiste, Baron
  My Daddy is a Pretzel
  Barefoot Books, 2004
  E Bap (Grades 1-3)
  While other children's parents are veterinarians, gardeners, builders etc., one father is able to become a dog, a tree and bridge using various yoga poses.
• Burstein, Fred
  Anna's Rain
  Orchard Books, 1989
  E Bur (Picture Books)
  Ann Lee and her father feed the birds on a rainy day.
• Catalanotto, Peter
  Dad and Me
  DK Publishing, 1999
  E Cat (Grades 1-3)
  Tommy is eager to listen with his father to the first American spacewalk, but his father has to go to work and when he comes home in the evening they have some trouble reconnecting.
• Clinton, Patrick
  I Can Be a Father
  Children's Press, 1988
  E Cli (Grades 1-3)
  Describes how fathers provide for, take care of, and teach their children.
• Gaiman, Neil
  The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
  Harper Collins, 2004
  E Gai (Grades 1-3)
  After trading their dad for two goldfish, and a boy and his sister go on a rollicking adventure around town to get him back.
• Hallinan, P.K.
  We're Very Good Friends, My Father and I
  Children's Press, 1989
  E Hal (Picture Books)
  A father and child share many quality times together.
• Krensky, Stephen
  My Dad Can Do Anything
  Random House, 2004
  E Kre (Picture Books)
  Takes a look at some of the special talents that Father's have.
• Kupchella, Rick
  Tell Me What We Did Today
  Tristan Publishing, 2003
  E Kup (Picture Books)
  With the simple request, "Tell me what we did today", a child encourages and engages a parent in conversation to get them to talk about all of the events they share in the course of their daily lives.
• Meisel, Paul
  Zara's Hats
  Penguin Putnam books, 2006
  E Mei (Picture Books)
  Selig , the hatmaker, creates beautiful hats with the help of his wife and his daughter Zara. When her father runs out of feathers, Zara travels all over the world to look for more feathers. Zara, looking at the display windows, uses papier mache animals, fruit and animals to make hats that the customer's love.
• McCourt, Lisa
  Good Night, Princess Pruney Toes
  Bridgewater Books, 2001
  E McC (Picture Books)
  With the help of her loyal subject, Sir Daddy, a young girl pretend to be a princess ,as she gets ready for bed.
• Minarik, Else
  I Miss You Father Bear
  Harper Festival, 2003
  E Min (Picture Books)
  Mother and little Bear discuss the much anticipated homecoming of Father Bear, who is a sailor.
• Monjo, F.N.
  The One Bad Thing About Father
  Harper and Row Junior Books, 1970
  E Mon (Grades 1-3)
  Fictional account of life in the White House, as told by president Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son.
• Mott, Evelyn
  A Day at the Races
  Random House, 1993
  E Mot (Grades 1-3)
  Text and photographs follow champion driver Kyle Petty and his son during a day at the stock car races.
• Pelton, Mindy
  When Dad's at Sea
  Albert Whitman and Co. , 2004
  E Pel (Grades 1-3)
  Emily, whose father is a Navy pilot, has to deal with the separation of her family while her Dad is deployed aboard a ship.
• Say, Allen
  The Lost Lake
  Houghton Mifflin, 1989
  E Say (Grades 1-3)
  A young boy and his father become closer friend during a camping trip in the mountains.

Older Fiction

• Brown, Marc,
  Arthur and the 1001 Dads
  Little , Brown and Co., 2003
  + Bro
  Arthur and his friends try to find a substitute to attend the Father's Day picnic with Buster, whose father is not around much since his parent's divorce.
• Creech, Sharon
  Replay
  Harper Collins, 2005
  + Cre
  As twelve year old Leo prepares for his role in a school play, Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager, and ponders the ways people change as they grow older. An added feature - the text for the play Rumpopo's Porch.
• Gantos, Jack
  Joey Pigza Loses Control
  Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2000
  + Gan
  Joey who is talking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
• Philbrick, Rodman,
  The Young Man and the Sea
  Blue Sky Press, 2004
  + Phi
  After the death of his mother twelve year old Skiff tries to keep both his depressed a father, who has turned to alcohol, and his father's sinking fishing boat, afloat. An enormous job, even for an adult, but Skiff does not give up trying. A tribute to Hemingway.
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls
  Laura's Pa
  Harper Collins, 1999
  + Wil
  Stories about Laura's father and life on the frontier.
• Yeo, Laurence
  The Ghost Fox
  Scholastic, 1994
  + Yep
  While his father is away from their Chinese village, Little Lee fights to save his mother's soul from an evil fox spirit that has assumes human form.

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