What’s your daddy like? Does he wake up grumpy or happy? Does he have hair, and if so, what color? Is he tall, short or medium? What does he do for work? With questions like these and more, author Ruth Redford explores a great variety of daddies. A two-dad couple is among them—and career options such as “nurse” and “dancer” reflect an openness to careers that are not traditionally gendered. We also see dads dressing up in bee wings and a unicorn horn to play with their tutu-clad daughters.
There are no identifiable transgender dads (though of course readers are free to imagine that some of them are). Compare this to Sarah Kate-Ellis’ similar book All Moms, which more successfully incorporates moms with various gender expressions (and possibly trans identities). And unlike Carol Gordon Ekster’s Some Daddies, there’s no explicit acknowledgment of different family types. Nevertheless, for those with dads, this is a happy little volume showing many of the things—active, tender, creative, silly, and caring—that dads may do.
