The Best Daddy of All

PreS-Gr 2–A recasting of 2003’s The Best Father of All, with a new illustrator. Droll scenes will fully engage children with a playful guess-along narrative featuring a loving child/father pair of tortoises. Snuggled up next to his father, Sebastian remarks on the coziness of being together but wonders what else dads can do. As they observe their surroundings, they see spiders, birds, and other critter dads providing and caring for their young offspring. As the father tortoise provides clues to the activities of the different animals, Sebastian guesses what kinds of dads are being described. Then the son is challenged to discover who is the best dad of all—an answer that has been readily apparent all along. Pen and watercolor illustrations provide crisp details while also depicting clear emotional bonds between the animal offspring and their dads.