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A young elephant and his father spend Saturday running errands, sipping lemonade, and having a cookout.

In illustrations and verse, lists some of the many ways a father, whether pilot or baseball player, could show his love for his child.

A group of children tries to capture the daddysaurus, a mystical creature capable of kindness, bravery, and fun.

A child he's never met. A danger he's never known. That he's a father is news former Navy SEAL Ben Slocum didn't expect. But once the shock wears off, the confirmed bachelor takes in what social worker Claire Chastain is saying: that his son has been abducted by a man who wants revenge against Claire and Sam's dead mother. And that Ben is now the child's only hope. Banding together to find Sam, Ben and Claire fight feelings there's no time to explore....

A father tells his child about his love, fear, and joy in being her parent.

"Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loud father-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious, quality."--

Papa Bear takes his cubs on a trip with him in order to show them how to fish, but when the little ones forgo the expensive equipment and want to fish with simple tools, it is Papa Bear who winds up learning a lesson.

When Pippa and Jack's mother died of cancer their world seemed to fall apart: Pippa stopped talking altogether, and Jack started picking fights, and neither of them knows how to cope with the painful and awkward sympathy from their friends and classmates--but when they learn that their father's business is failing and he is growing desperate for money they realize that there is a possibility that they will lose another parent, this time to jail.

"For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life...

A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.