You and Your Dad Book

You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around the World is a children's picture book written by Barbara Kerley. It tells the story of what a parent and child do together throughout the day and the accompanying photographs show that this is not just one parent and one child do together, but parents and children around the world. As today is Family Day in Canada (15 February 2021), I thought it would be apropos to read this book today.

Kerley's text is rather simplistic, straightforward, and lyrical. The text is simple and comfortable as the narrative tells what parents and children do on a daily basis. The photographs are from the National Geographic Archives and are all sourced and identified at the end, with a world map so eager readers can locate where each child and parent comes from.

The premise of the book is rather straightforward. It shares what parents and children do on a daily basis around the world from sharing many things like a joke, a mess or a meal, a ride or a dance in this lightly rhymed book to children and their parents. Not only is it utterly reassuring, but it displays its gentle wisdom in unexpected ways and full of surprises.

All in all, You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around the World is a wonderful collection of pictures about parents and children from around the world.