Books like My Dad
By Anthony Browne
A great-grandson wanders through his grandfather's topiary garden, where hedges shaped like a farmboy, a soldier, and a chickenpox-covered kid retell a whole lifetime one memory at a time.
A father speaks love to his child from day one — through truth, comfort, joy, and pride — guiding them through monsters both imaginary and real, and toward a better world.
An immigrant family stitches a quilt from old clothing to remember home in Russia, and for four generations that same quilt is passed from mother to daughter through weddings, Sabbaths, and births.
A grandfather leads his three grandchildren up to the attic, pulls out his old bowler hat and tap shoes, and shows them the vaudeville song-and-dance act he once performed on stage.
A mother sings the same lullaby to her son from infancy through adulthood, rocking him each night — until he is grown and gently rocks her in return.
A witch famous throughout Russia for eating children is secretly a lonely old woman who longs for a grandchild, so she disguises herself as a village babushka to find one.
Two brothers spend an evening fishing with their mama, each one asking who's better at digging worms, rowing, and catching fish — and, at bedtime, who she loves the most.
A carload of relatives drives all the way from Virginia in a rainbow-colored station wagon for a summer visit full of hugging, garden-tending, and porch music that ends, happily, with a promise to return.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A child in the Arctic asks her mother again and again — what if I misbehave, what if I turn into a wild animal — testing just how far a mother's love can stretch.
A boy named Eli grows up on his grandparents' farm, learning to love the barn, the fields, and the river that surround him — then shares those same places with his baby sister, Sylvie.
A pair of cardinals build their home in a beloved evergreen tree, but when the tree is suddenly taken away, one bird must find his way back to the other across a great distance.
