Top 10 dads in picture books

Dads often get a raw deal in picture books - often absent or else caricatured as the not-very-smart or the fix-it-all-with-my-toolbox father. Here Sean Taylor picks the best well-rounded dads in a selection of fabulous picture books for father’s dayYou get more mums than dads in picture books. Perhaps that’s understandable. Mums still loom largest in the lives of many picture-book-aged children. But perhaps it reflects our world, in which absent fathers are ever more common. One way