Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
- Claude Monet
Dad Suggests was created to share with others the many different things that we have loved sharing with our own children.
Our hope is that - by reading or visiting our children’s bookstore - you will find something special to enjoy with your own family.
- Ryan
All tagged penguin books
Kevin the Unicorn: It’s Not All Rainbows is the perfect picture book to teach our children that it’s okay not to be perfect. It’s also completely normal to have bad days, and the pressure that society puts on us to be perfect is frankly unhealthy.
Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers is a passionate love letter to books. This chapter book is a book lover’s dream. Beloved characters from famous novels come to life, characters travel into favorite fictional worlds, and the magical, life-transforming power of storytelling is on full display.
Dragon Night by J. R. Krause is a beautiful, new picture book about friendship - and taking care of each other. And there are many reasons I’m very excited to add it to our collection of books that help pass empathy on to our children.
I think that spreading happiness is just about as noble a cause as you can come across these days. So I’m very excited to begin a series of articles titled How to Teach Empathy to Kids. The first book in this series is The Happy Book by Andy Rash - a very appropriately-named starting place.
I think there’s a very strong argument to be made that the entire birthday wish ritual is the coolest thing about a kid’s birthday party - because it’s certainly the most imaginative and magical part. And you know I’m all about a magical and imaginative childhood. That’s why I think it’s a fantastic idea to write a picture book entirely about the birthday wish.
