Happy Father's Day 2020

Written by Eden

Celebrate your Dad this Father’s Day with these 8 books, perfect to pick up any time of year!

LOST IN BOOKS wishes all the wonderful Fathers and Father figures who make up our diverse community a warm and happy Father’s Day!

Whether you’re looking for a last minute gift or want to add a few inspiring fictional Dads to your shelf, today we’re sharing 8 books in the Picture Book, Young Adult and Graphic Novel category to celebrate all the paternal figures in your life.

Keep scrolling to learn more about each book!

AVAILABLE IN STORE AND ONLINE.

CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO PURCHASE

Nights with Dad by Karen Hesse, Illustrated by G. Brian Karas

A luminous and lyrical tribute to the enduring, everyday sort of love between a boy and his father. When the sun sets, Dad's night shift as a school caretaker is just beginning. What is it like to work at night, while the rest of the city is asleep? There's the smell of lilacs in the night air, the dusky motorway in the moonlight and glimpses of shy night-time animals to make the dark magical. Playing basketball in the half-lit sport's hall, sweeping the stage with the match on the radio, reading out loud to his father in the library all help the boy's time pass quickly. But what makes the night really special? Just being with Dad.

Love by Matt de la Peña, Illustrated by Loren Long

In this heartfelt celebration of love, Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long depict the many ways we experience this universal bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond. With a lyrical text that's soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a needed comfort and a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age.

Fly by Jess McGeachin

Lucy had always been good at fixing things, and Dad needed a bit of help. It was just the two of them after all. So when Lucy finds a bird with a broken wing, she's sure she can fix him too. But not everything that's broken can be fixed.

Dear Grandpa by Kate Simpson and Ronojoy Ghosh

A picture book about the special relationship between a boy and his grandfather, who stay close even when they are separated by distance.
As Henry measures the distance between his new apartment and Grandpa's wooden house under the mango tree, Grandpa works out how close they really are. A moving story that celebrates the bond between a boy and his grandfather.

Hey Grandude! by Paul McCartney, Illustrated by Kathryn Durst

An action-packed picture book adventure celebrating the fun grandparents and grandkids can get up to.
Meet Grandude - a super-cool, intrepid-explorer grandfather with some amazing tricks up his sleeve - Grandude is a one-of-a-kind adventurer! With his magic compass he whisks his four grandkids off on whirlwind adventures, taking them all around the globe.

Catching Teller Crow by Ameblin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina

An extraordinary thriller, told from the perspective of two Aboriginal protagonists, which weaves together themes of grief, colonial history, violence, love and family.
Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad, a detective, is the only one who can see and hear her, and he's drowning in grief. Only a suspected murder, and a mystery to solve, might save them both. And they have a potential witness: Isobel Catching. Aboriginal by birth, like Beth, she seems lost and isolated in the world. But as the two get closer, Isobel's strange tale of glass-eyed monsters and stolen colours will intertwine with Beth's investigation - and reveal something dark and terrible at the heart of this Australian town . .

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox

Biz knows how to float. She has her posse, her mum and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here - because he died when she was seven - but is.
So she doesn't tell anyone her dark thoughts. She knows how to float, right there on the surface - normal okay regular fine. But when the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone - when her dad disappears along with all comfort - might it be easier, better, sweeter to float away? This is a mesmerising, radiant debut. It's a story about love, grief, family and friendship, about intergenerational mental illness, and about how living with it is both a bridge and a chasm to the ones we've lost.

Zatanna and the House of Secrets by Matthew Cody and Yoshi Yoshitani

Zatanna and her professional magician father live in a special house, the House of Secrets, which is full of magic, puzzles, mysterious doors, and storybook creatures--it's the house everyone in the neighborhood talks about but avoids. Not that Zatanna cares, though, because she is perfectly content.
But at school one day, Zatanna stands up to a bully and everything changes ... including her friends. Suddenly, Zatanna isn't so sure about her place in the world, and when she returns home to tell her father, he's gone missing, lost within their own home.