Permit me a moment to give a shout-out to my amazing husband (happy anniversary to us next week!). Though he is generally spotlight-averse, this will nevertheless be a very special weekend for him: not only is he turning 45 on Saturday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!), he'll also be celebrating Father's Day on Sunday, June 15, with our three kids. The weekend will be dad-focused, but knowing him, I'm sure there will be plenty of reading board books (Leslie Patricelli's Daddy is a current favorite in our house) and volleyball happening, too, because as parents, we enjoy doing what our kids enjoy doing and, most importantly, doing it together.

Here are some recommended books, articles, and blog posts featuring dads, granddads, father figures, and Father’s Day; find plenty more about fathers (and moms, and grandparents, and other loving caregivers) here at Family Reading.

• Picture Books for Father's Day list of recommended books from the Guide/Reviews Database 

• Five questions for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang about Anything

• Parents and children from the May 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Teens and parents from the September 2024 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Learning from our elders from the August 2024 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Book Bundles: Dope Black Dads by Summer Edward

• Michael Datcher and Frank Morrison Talk with Roger about Harlem at Four

• Every Day Is Grandparents Day! by Summer Edward

• Jesús Trejo and Eliza Kinkz Talk with Roger about Papá’s Magical Water-Jug Clock

• Field Notes: I Gave My Life to Books: A Journey Through the World of Children's Literature by Dean Schneider

• The Wisdom of Grandpas by Sarah Threlkeld

• Family Memories of Frederic G. Melcher by Sue Melcher

• My Father's Final Lesson - The Zena Sutherland Lecture by Jason Reynolds

• Five questions for Matt Ringler about Strollercoaster

• Doing things with Dad from the June 2021 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Father's Day picture books 2020 from the June 2020 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Five Questions for Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña about My Papi Has a Motorcycle from the May 2019 Summer Reading edition of Notes from the Horn Book

• In the Studio with Jerry Pinkney by Andrea Davis Pinkney from the May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Coretta Scott King Book Awards at 50

• Lift Every Voice: Dreams Never Realized by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson from the May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Coretta Scott King Book Awards at 50

• Five Gay Picture-Book Prodigies and the Difference They've Made by Barbara Bader from the March/April 2015 Horn Book Magazine

• Picture Books for Father's Day 2019 from the June 2019 Notes from the Horn Book

• Grandparents Day 2018

• Father's Day 2017 from the June 2017 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• The Cat in the Hat on a Bus with Us by Roger Sutton

• Fathers, sons, and grandfathers from the June 2016 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Hoppy for Poppy from the June 2015 issue of Notes from the Horn Book

• Thanks a lot, Trixie's Dad by Elissa Gershowitz

• Picture book father-son reading recommendations by Katie Bircher

• Words for Flora’s Mother (and Other Imperfect Parents) (2014) and Drawing comfort from shared reading by Megan Dowd Lambert 

• Ask Family Reading: Non-wicked stepparents

Happy Father's Day!