Book Dads

Every year we go to visit my family in northern New York for Thanksgiving. I stuffed myself silly with my sister’s chocolate peanut butter pie and discovered my son is a big fan of real homemade whipped cream. With my father and his wife in Florida and missing the festivities, I found mysel...

The  young boy in this story has an enemy, a number-one enemy, a very best enemy.  That enemy is Jeremy Ross, who lives down the street and didn’t invite a certain someone to his birthday party.  Luckily, this boy’s dad has a plan for dealing with enemies: bake them an enemy pie.  Whi...

We have one prize box of five books to giveaway for The Book Dads Holiday 2009 Giveaway. One winner will receive all five books, no substitutions or specific requests will be accepted.The five books included in the prize box are (click the title to read our review):1. Secrets of a Christmas Box b...

What does it take to be a good man?  That’s the question posed by Matt Gannon in this documentary based on the accompanying anthology edited by James Houghton, Larry Bean, and Tom Matlack.  The documentary presents short essays from among the books four sections on Fathers, Sons, Husbands, ...

What does it take to be a good man?  That’s the question posed by the editors of this anthology and the accompanying documentary by Matt Gannon.  The answers to this question are as diverse as the identities of modern men whose writings compose the book’s four sections: Fathers, Sons,...

Weekend Wander is a weekly roundup of links, events and resources related to books, reading, literacy and dads too.  We would like to explore and share ideas from both the book blogging  and the dad blogging communities. Here is what we have to share this week:Reach Out and Read at: www.reachouta...

Book Dads Twitter Links is a roundup of our posts on Twitter this week and we hope to share links related to books, literacy and dads too. Follow Book Dads on TwitterCicada Summer, story of one girl’s struggle with a terrible loss, & of her relationship with her single father. http://bookdads...

In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color line and ended racial segregation in Major League Baseball by becoming the first African-American to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Testing the Ice is a touching memoir by his daughter Sharon that begins eight years later when Robinson helped the Brooklyn...

Hey, Daddy! is a book about animal fathers that is appropriate for younger readers who want to know more about this fascinating topic. This nonfiction

In their second book, the Penderwick family is back home on Gardam Street, but getting into as much trouble as ever.  It all begins when their favorite aunt decides that the widowed Mr. Penderwick must start dating again, an idea that does not sit well with the Penderwick sisters at all.  Togethe...

Weekend Wander is a weekly roundup of links, events and resources related to books, reading, literacy and dads too.  We would like to explore and share ideas from both the book blogging  and the dad blogging communities. Here is what we have to share this week:Library Journal Names Waiting on a T...