Dad's Day Done Your Way: Fathers' Day Roundup

Maybe Mothers' Day came first--in the calendar and in history--but parents deserves equal time, and authors and illustrators have long been busy creating Dads' Day stories. Fatherhood takes all kinds, considering that nature seems to have shaped a lot of models of fathers across the varied genomes of known species, but basically a good dad is one that is there at the right times. Human dads come in all shapes and sizes, too.

A list of stories for younger readers in which dads get their due is here.

And for dadly advice from a grown-up father for a dad to read to himself, there's the humorous look at Dad-Hood by that master of maleness, Dave Barry, You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About.