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by Tamara Girardi
illustrated by Nichola Cowdery

Why are your arms so much longer than mine, Daddy? Why? 

So I can scoop you up into the biggest, best bear hugs!

You know you’re a parent when it feels like you hear the word “Why?” a million times a day. In this adorable board book, a cuddly papa bear uses his cub’s naturally inquisitive nature to show the many forms of his love. From bear hugs to bubble baths and storytime snuggles, this daddy answers every question with the answer to why parents do, well, everything: love.

$9.99

by Ashley Marie Mireles
illustrated by Volha Kaliaha

A is for Aston Martin

B is for Beetle

C is for Corvette

With F for Ferrari, K for Karmann Ghia, and S for Shelby, going from A to Z has never been more fun—or fast! Zoom into the ABCs with the classic models and luxury brands that make the car world so amazing!

$9.99

by Brooke Jorden
illustrated by Kyle Kershner

There’s a TARDIS cookie jar in our kitchen. A Picard air freshener in our car. And we won’t even mention Harry Potter in the bathroom. We’re geeks and proud of it! But is there nothing for baby? Inconceivable!

Introducing 100 First Words for Little Geeks, a deliciously nerdy primer for kids learning their first words! Forget apple and dog. Little geeks are ready for holy grail, warp core, and intergalactic catastrophe (okay, forget that last one, but they’ll learn tribble and that’s about the same thing). Packed with hilarious illustrations and 100 words every geek baby should know (before any others, of course), 100 First Words for Little Geeks is the perfect board book for geek families everywhere. Great Scott!

$9.99

by Andrea Veenker
illustrated by Patrick Gray

There’s protein powder in the pantry and a yoga mat in the living room. We meal prep and take #flexFriday selfies. We’re living the fit life and proud of it! But is there nothing for baby? 

Introducing 100 First Words for Little Gym Rats, a health and fitness primer for kids learning their first words! Forget apple and dog. Little gym rats are ready to move from ABCs to BCAAs and other important exercise-related words like hypertrophy, deadlift, and Arnold. Packed with hilarious illustrations and 100 words every active baby should know (before any others, of course), 100 First Words for Little Gym Rats is the perfect board book for fit families everywhere. The best way to introduce your child to what Mommy or Daddy does at the gym and to teach the importance of health and fitness from the very beginning!

$9.99

by Alycia Pace
illustrated by Robin Currie

Winner of the 2023 Gold Medal BookFest Award

Winner of the 2023 PenCraft Award

Winner of the 2023 FAPA President’s Gold Award

Winner of the 2022 Moonbeam Spirit Award Bronze Board Book

 

ROAR! Dinosaurs don’t wear shirts!

Every parent knows the struggle of getting a child dressed and out the door. But with a cast of hilariously coiffed dinosaurs to teach toddlers how to stomp their feet into pant legs and reach their claws into shirts, getting dressed becomes a game. With this playful companion to How to Potty Train a Dinosaur, your little dino lover will beg to join in the fun and get dressed like a dinosaur!

$9.99

by Peter Forde

Honk! Honk! Find your balance with some help from your favorite construction vehicles. With child-friendly yoga poses that mirror different trucks, Big Truck Yoga encourages both movement and stillness in young children, along with a healthy dose of imagination!

$9.99

by Tyler Jorden
illustrated by Elsa Martins

Engage with Newton on gravity and explore mass, lift, friction, and other amazing laws of physics with the most exciting and interactive physics book available for your little genius! With explanations and real-life examples of Newton’s Three Laws, this interactive board book invites children to pull the levers, turn the wheels, and watch as an airplane lifts off, a roller coaster zooms around a loop, and a boat floats. Each concept is animated and interactive to introduce and explore some of most important aspects of our physical world. Kids will delight in seeing centripetal force, inertia, thrust, and more come to life. A perfect tool for instructing and inspiring little physicists of all ages.

$14.99

Picture Books

by Zack Bush
illustrated by Gregorio De Lauretis

Of all the children that ever could be,

You are the one made just for me.

From a child’s first uttered “Dada” to his or her first unsteady steps, nothing can adequately convey the joy and awe of watching the birth and growth of a new child. Available in hardcover, board book, and Spanish language formats, this book is perfect for new dads, baby shower gift-giving, and Father’s Day gift-giving. Written by a dad for dads, it’s guaranteed to touch the hearts of all dads (just read the reviews). 

Filled with adorable illustrations and the refrain, “You are the one made just for me,” Made for Me is a winning presentation of tender moments that tie a father and his new child together—forever.

$16.99

by Michael Leannah
illustrated by Dani Torrent

You are strong. You are brave. You are so incredibly good.

On an ordinary night in an ordinary house, a father’s ordinary words do something extraordinary. Lulled to sleep by these whispered affirmations, his baby girl grows into a fun-loving child, a confident teen, and then a courageous young woman. As she ventures forth into the world on her own, her father’s affectionate affirmations—now carried in memory—bolster her through life’s challenges and, like whispers on the night wind, come full circle to strengthen her aging father and young son of her own. With breathtaking illustrations from Spanish artist Dani Torrent, Goodnight Whispers is a heartwarming story about a father’s love and the power of affirmation.

$16.99

by Heidi Stemple
illustrated by Eugenia Nobati

Wren’s Nest is an intergenerational picture book about love, birds, and new life from author Heidi Stemple and illustrator Eugenia Nobati.

When Wren was born, Grandpa put a wren box just outside the window of her tiny room. When she was a baby, the wrens sang her to sleep. Each spring, Wren and Grandpa watched the birds bringing sticks and grasses to the box and listened when the babies squealed for their dinner.

When Wren’s family moves to the city, she misses birdwatching in the meadow. Their new home has an extra bedroom, but the only birds she can see are pigeons. Lots of pigeons. But when Wren and her grandpa discover a phoebe nest in the rafters above their porch, they get a front-row seat to the miracle of new life—both in nature and in their own home.

With ecological backmatter about what to do if you find a bird’s nest and other birdwatching resources, this gorgeously illustrated picture book explores the sweet relationship between grandfather and granddaughter, as well as the anticipation of a new arrival.

$17.99

by Benjamin Fox
illustrated by Elizabeth Robbins

The New knows softness.

The Old knows life can be hard.

The New holds on.

The Old is learning to let go. 

First-time author Benjamin Fox uses simple words to explore the vastly deep themes of life and love as a new baby and an old grandfather prepare to meet each other for the first time. Illustrated by award-winning and nationally recognized still-life artist Elizabeth Robbins, The Great and the Grand celebrates the beautiful balance of age and youth, experience and innocence, the Old and the New.

$6.99

by Gabe Jensen

There was a dog named Neverwoof,

and never did he woof.

He chased a siren.            

Woo woo woo.

He saved a baby.                  

Boo hoo hoo.

He got high-fives from the fire crew.

But never did he woof.

Everyone in town knows Neverwoof is a good dog—so quiet, so composed. But when danger is in the house, will he find his bark? With rhyming text that begs to be read aloud and retro-style art in pantone color, Neverwoof is a hilarious picture book with a surprising twist!

$16.99

Cookbooks

by Aly Romero

Savor the thrill of outdoor cooking with loved ones, as renowned chef Aly Romero shares her expertise and cherished memories, offering a collection of unique and creative recipes that celebrate family bonds, while providing adaptations for indoor cooking so everyone can enjoy the incredible flavors.

Get excited about cooking together outdoors! Take your recipes from the kitchen to the grill, enjoying friends and family, and building community through cooking outdoors! Author Aly Romero is a private chef, Traeger ambassador, and media personality—but you can just think of her as your friend who cooks!

Whether you prefer beef, chicken, seafood, or grilled veggies, Gas Fire Heat provides recipes with a culinary approach for BBQ, smoking, and griddling to awaken your taste buds with easy, unique, and creative recipes the whole family will love!

Includes Color Photographs

$24.99

by Jason Goldstein

Sandwiches: the ultimate comfort food with endless amazing combinations. But you won’t find a PB&J in this delicious collection. These are gourmet sandwiches with a twist, and every recipe makes it easy for busy people to come home after a long day to a satisfying, flavorful sandwich every time. From the Avocado Shrimp Everything Bagel to the Mexican Chicken Sausage and Peppers Sub to the Spinach Artichoke Dip Grilled Cheese, every page will have you drooling. Each section provides a tasty, time-saving approach: Sheet-pan sandwiches save on dishes. Slow-cooker sandwiches let you “set it and forget it.” And breadless sandwiches keep things interesting! With a whole chapter on variations on grilled cheese, The Happy Sandwich is the cookbook every sandwich lover needs! 

$19.99

The Kitchen Connection Alliance, in close cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, develops an international cookbook to support the way that we eat for ourselves and for the planet.

Celebrity chefs, organic farmers, indigenous cooks, and food activists share their favorite entrées and side dishes that are not only healthy and delicious but also sustainable. This gorgeous cookbook features full-color photography along with each recipe’s nutritional information and estimated carbon footprints for the most climate-friendly dishes, so you can support sustainable food systems from your own kitchen. Learn how to eat better for yourself and for the planet with The Cookbook in Support of the United Nations: For People and Planet, a global collection for global connection.

$29.99

by Pierre Lamielle

What makes good food taste good? A team of tastes and flavors of course!

Fun illustrations and quirky characters bring the kitchen to life. Join Pierre Lamielle on a kitchen adventure as he introduces you to the Munchy Munchy Gang, a team of characters here to educate kids on the art of cooking and the range of flavors they’ll encounter. Learn how to make over 28 different recipes, including ketchup, pancakes, and other kid favorites with simple instructions and illustrations for every step. Pierre’s characters make complex cooking theories, like balancing the five tastes, accessible to kids of all ages. The perfect manual for a budding chef!

$19.99

by Ericka Sanchez and Nicole Presley

Make your morning a fiesta with a collection of traditional Mexican breakfasts and Mexicanized American breakfast and brunch favorites. From egg dishes and chilaquiles to pan, hot cereals, pancakes, and waffles, ¡Buenos Días! is the best way to start your day! From Latina culinary queens Ericka Sanchez (Nibbles and Feasts) and Nicole Presley (Presley’s Pantry), this delicioso collection also includes drinks you’ll look forward to waking up for, including coffee, fruit juices, and tea.

$24.99

Gift Books

by Familius

“For fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye . . . get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That’s about all you need.”

—WILL FERRELL, ACTOR AND COMEDIAN

 

Being a father brings incredible joy and laughter, but also worry and frustration. Every dad could use a pick-me-up reminder that he’s not alone. In fact, most dads feel the same way! With 365 quotes from dads (who also happen to be thought leaders, comedians, and politicians) and hilarious images of fatherhood in progress, Daily Fatherhood is the perfect gift for Dad.

$15.99

by Hugh Weber

Gone are the days of long, handwritten letters from father to son. Now, the most we can expect is a text, tweet, or Facebook update. By accessing the social web and the power of the dad crowd, Wisdom for Dad cuts through the clutter to deliver brief, witty pieces of wisdom—in 140 characters or less.

$16.99

by John Sherry

Master 100 essential outdoor knots with help from John Sherry, the world’s leading knot-tying educator! Based on the wildly successful Pro-Knot cards and Sherry’s own NetKnots.com website, Knot It! is an unprecedented resource for novices and masters alike. Full-color pages clearly illustrate knot-tying instructions for 100 must-learn knots, plus clever uses and other essential information. The hardcover book also comes with a set of John’s coveted 1,000,000-copy selling Pro-Knot cards: 5 waterproof, vinyl, quick-reference cards you can take literally anywhere! Knot It! also includes a length of high-grade paracord rope to practice with.

$25.99

by Noah benShea and Shaun Tomson

Sometimes life’s waves knock you down; other times, life might seem to sweep you along powerless. But the choice is always yours to swim back up to the light. Legendary world champion surfer Shaun Tomson and international bestselling poet-philosopher Noah benShea join forces to offer you insight on a path of purpose, hope, and faith. This timely guidebook alternates between Tomson’s inspiring experiential essays and benShea’s spiritual commentary that lift the soul, all accented with stunning full-color surfing photographs.

After losing his son, Tomson walked the bitter road of loss and crossed from darkness into the light. The Surfer and the Sage addresses the eighteen relentless, breaking waves of life, from loss and aging to relationships and depression, and guides you to transformation. It is not a list of rules to follow that guarantee success, health, or wealth, but rather a collection of advice from two guides who have traveled far and wide and suffered deeply, but still look forward to tomorrow with faith and hope.

$17.99

by Dan Roberts

Join acclaimed historian Dan Roberts—known to millions as the voice of the A Moment in Time radio series—on a bite-sized romp through 500 years of American history. With just one minute a day, you can master all the essential facts of America’s founding, Civil War, world conflicts, homefront transformations, and more!

With the same insightful, engaging 1-minute essays and a wide-ranging look into the major events in the United States of America, Master American History in 1 Minute a Day, Expanded Edition is here! This revised edition has been updated to include the momentous events in the last five years, including the murder of George Floyd and subsequent national demand for racial equity and police reform; the COVID-19 pandemic; the Trump presidency; SpaceX; and the January 6 Insurrection. Additional chapters have been added to more deeply explore the Jim Crow South, Juneteenth, FDR’s deportation of American citizens of Mexican descent, and more.

$21.99

by Hugh Weber and Mrs. Dude

Dude to Dad: The First Nine Months contains absolutely no expert advice or medical guidance. You can read about mucus plugs and colostrum elsewhere. What you will find is a candid, quick and often irreverent roadmap for making the most of your own personal transition from Dude to Dad.

“I had just landed in a rickety prop plane on a dirt runway on an island in the Arctic Ocean off the north slope of Alaska. I picked up the satellite phone to call my wife and let her know we had survived the most aggressive part of the trip. She told me that she thought she should take “the test.” Little did I know that the journey had just begun. . .”

 

$10.95

Self-Help, Parenting, & Grandparenting

by Tal Eyre
illustrations by Bernardo França

Unlocking the Power of Fatherhood. In this essential guide for dads with young children, Tal Eyre shares insights and practical strategies to form unbreakable bonds, foster growth, and create a mission-driven family. Activate your dad mode today!

You’re going to be a dad!—words that don’t feel real until nine months later when the new baby arrives. You hold that small life in your arms for the first time, and BOOM, Dad Mode activated! All your feelings as a proud new dad coalesce into one astounding commitment: lifelong connection to your child. But how do you do this dad thing?

From author Tal Eyre, Dad Mode: 25 Ways to Connect with Your Children is the ultimate guidebook to jumpstarting Dad Mode and fostering an unbreakable connection with your child. Organized into bite-sized chapters, with action steps and a full-color illustration by Bernardo França for each way, this book makes connection easy for dads in a hurry. It covers topics from oxytocin and parenting styles to emotional intelligence and family culture, focusing on children ages 0–12. Everything you need to connect, reconnect, and remain connected for life is at the tips of your fingers! 

$17.99

by Kendall Smith

If you grew up without a father figure, you may be concerned whether you have what it takes to be a great dad. Author Kendall Smith, son of a single mother, takes you under his wing, sharing the wisdom he has gathered from his own experience as a father, from observing other dads, and from interviewing various generations of men. This playbook for fathers who, like Smith, did not have a regular and dependable father figure is packed with short lessons to answer questions new dads will face, from choosing your parenting style to what it means to really be the “man of the house” (spoiler alert: it’s not the 1950s) to managing your expectations as your child grows into a unique person. With hilarious examples and a straightforward approach, Rookie Father is the mentor-in-a-book every new father needs to be the dad you want to be.

$15.99

by Tim J. Myers

After staying home with his two sons for a year and his daughter since her infancy, Tim Myers knows all about being a stay-at-home parent. He knows the most effective cleaning products, which snacks to buy, and has developed a “housemaid’s knee.” He has experienced first-hand the profound influence fathers have on their children, along with the challenges of being a committed parent. By recounting personal experiences, offering honest, sincere opinions, and including quizzes for fatherly-preparedness, Tim Myers emphasizes the importance of fatherly contribution and influence in the home. He shows fathers that they are not only vital to home life, but that fatherhood also brings great joy into men’s lives, not to mention a surprising amount of plain old fun. In addition, Myers details the essential role of fathers, and the very real (and sometimes frustrating) transition into taking an active role in home life. Poignant, funny, and inspiring, Glad to Be Dad is perfect for both aspiring fathers and seasoned veterans.

$17.95

by Michael Smith

The Power of Dadhood encourages men to father with the knowledge that they are vitally important to the futures of their children. National speaker Michael Byron Smith discusses the implications of a fatherless home, the challenges of parenting, and the hierarchy of fathers. There are absent fathers, present yet uninvolved fathers, authoritative fathers, loving fathers, teaching fathers, and many more. Any man, through The Power of Dadhood, can assess himself, see where he stands, and make choices to become a real Dad and find the power of Dadhood!

$16.95

by Ken Tucker

Using six steps and a “SECRET” formula, international speaker, Fortune 500 strategist, and bestselling management author Ken Tucker explores the challenging skill sets required to navigate conflict and crucial conversations effectively. 

Drawing upon decades of experience in the corporate and government worlds, Tucker teaches leaders how to say what they really need to say and say it right so that their people and organizations execute the results they want and need. 

Intentional Conversations includes:

  • Context and conversations that lead to good results and those that don’t.
  • How leaders can use the “SECRET” process to enhance their success at work and in life.
  • Creative sidebars and QR media links that illustrate the principles in the book.

$18.99

by Brad Wilcox and Jerrick Robbins

A teen’s job is to be difficult and most do it really, really well. But what about you? You want to hug that hedgehog, right? But you don’t want to get hurt. No problem. With entertaining stories and 12 principles that open the cages, unlock the doors, gently tear down those walls, and get you talking, How to Hug a Hedgehog explores everything from communication to what you might have missed on the teen “warning label.”

Wilcox and Robbins help you face your worst fears, effectively handle pressure and stress, and answer the hardest question of all: “What happens if I fail?”

$18.99

by John Schlimm

When interacting with Gen-Zers, whether you be their parent, teacher, coach, relative, neighbor, or anything in between, the generational divide can seem larger than ever. Gen-Zers ignore you, they refuse to turn on their Zoom cameras, they procrastinate, they make strange jokes, they have short attention spans, and they take so many selfies. But that isn’t all there is to Generation Z. What Would Gen-Z Do? will help you reach across the generational divide and learn how to navigate your relationships with Gen-Zers.

In this guide to everything Gen-Z, John Schlimm, Harvard-trained educator and Gen-Z advocate, uses his extensive experience in working with the younger generation to offer some insight for anyone who’s navigating the Gen-Z universe. In 51 chapters, you’ll find quick, relatable lessons and activity ideas that crush the stereotypes and stigmas of Generation Z and shed light on who your Gen-Zers really are—intelligent, compassionate, courageous, and honest future leaders. Love them, appreciate them, and encourage them to rock on!

$19.99

by Richard Eyre

Statistics tell us that, as male Baby Boomers, we probably have another twenty to thirty good years ahead of us, and most have grandchildren. But how much time and mental energy will we expend on these living legacies? How much will we prioritize them, and how proactive and deliberate will we be as granddads?

New York Times #1 bestselling author, Richard Eyre encourages grandfathers to ask themselves a very important question: what kind of grandfather will you be? Will you be a “disengaged grandfather,” who downsizes to an adults-only condo in Sun City by a golf course and rarely sees his grandkids? Will you be a “limited grandfather,” a “supportive grandfather,” or—best of all—will you be a “proactive grandfather”?

Only when we choose to be proactive does grandfathering become effective, consequential, and truly fun. At this level, you deliberately ponder the needs you can uniquely fulfill, and you set goals and plans to enhance your grandchildren’s lives (in concert and in teamwork with the goals and stewardship of their parents). This approach will stretch and test you, but it will also reward you with levels of fulfillment, well-being, love, and peace otherwise unobtainable.

$17.99

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