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I Love My Daddy

by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Emma Dodd

Interest age: 1+
Reading age: 5+

Published by Orchard Books, 2013

  • Picture books

About this book

Picture book favourites Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd team up to celebrate the relationship between a child and their father in this lovely board book, which makes a perfect companion to their award-winning I Love My Mummy.

Follow the child and their loving dad through a whole host of day-to-day activities, from playing to cooking to watching TV and going to bed. Dodd's warm, cheerful illustrations work beautifully with Andreae's uplifting rhyming text.

A simple but delightful tribute to dads everywhere, the robust format of this chunky board book make it easy for little fingers to manage.

About the author

Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and bestselling picture books, such as Pants and The Lion who Wanted to Love. He has won the Federation of Children's Book Award and the Book Trust Early Years Award, but he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman. Giles lives in Notting Hill, London with his wife and four children.

About the illustrator

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator.

Emma studied graphic design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. She has illustrated bestselling Noisy Noisy series for Ladybird Books and, with author Giles Andreae, won a Book Trust Early Years Award in 2010 for I Love My Mummy.

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