My Dad!

by Chae Strathie

Tall tales trip off Dad's tongue as he gets carried away with his own imagination. But Dad always knows when to stop with stories and tell the truth. This is a warm and comforting story from Jacqueline East, the illustrator of "Cuddle!" and "That's When I'm Happy".

Genres: Love

24 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

About the author

Chae Strathie is an award-winning children’s author and journalist who grew up in a tiny village surrounded by a forest in Scotland, which probably explains a lot. His first attempt at professional writing was creating a Star Wars comic at the age of seven. He sold two copies and made a total of four pence. A regular at major book festivals, Chae has toured the length and breadth of the UK and visited schools as far afield as Romania, reading his stories, acting the goat and singing silly songs about worm ice cream and beard-growing. He lives in Dundee with three annoying cats and a very old goldfish called Lazarus.

Reviews

[Duane Alexander Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this book up at the Edinburgh Book Fair because I always invent stories for my kids, and with a new toddler in the house our other board books were wearing down.

I love that there is a book about dads, first of all. So much of Western society has become hyper-aware of the fact that a lot of kids are growing up without their fathers, and I guess to make them feel better, television and Hollywood have done a good job editing out fatherhood altogether. When dads do appear they are almost always stupid, like Homer Simpson or the Family Guy.

So this book, which is beautifully illustrated, is very welcome. My daughter (20 months) and I read it twice this morning alone.