The Little Big Book for Dads
Revised and Updated
edited by H. Clark Wakabayashi
and Lena Tabori
Published by Welcome Books
352 pages, 6 1/2" x 6 1/2"
150 color illustrations
Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95 CAN)
ISBN 978-1-59962-067-1

The Little Big Book for Dads, Welcome's companion to the best-selling The Little Big Book for Moms, is back in an updated edition featuring a fresh cover design, new vintage art, and a revised introduction. This classic is a treasure trove piled high with stories, fairy tales, poetry, activities, recipes, and songs—all selected with the dad in mind. Featuring text by authors as diverse, funny, and profound as Bill Cosby, Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Dr. Seuss, and illustrated throughout with early twentieth-century art from artists including Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenway, The Little Big Book for Dads makes for a special experience to be shared between dad and a little one.


The Little Big Book for Dads includes:

  • 16 nursery rhymes such as What are Little Boys/Girls Made Of?, There Was an Old Woman, and Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • over 30 activities such as Easy Magic, Insect Collecting, Sandcastles, and Toy Boats
  • 14 songs including "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
  • 16 fairy tales such as The Gingerbread Boy and The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  • 18 identifications, tongue twisters, and jokes
  • 20 of the best recipes for little kids, including French Toast, Macaroni and Cheese, Quick and Easy Tacos, Chicken Fingers, Sloppy Joes, and Chocolate Pudding
  • 24 poems and essays about childhood and fatherhood from Edward Lear, Dr. Seuss, Sylvia Plath, Ogden Nash, and others
  • 100 full-color and 150 line illustrations