A Sweet Story to Read for Father’s Day

May 13, 2026 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Always Carry Me with You isn’t necessarily a Father’s Day book, and it’s not even necessarily about just fathers and kids (though the illustrations look like a man). It’s about how a parent’s love covers their children and how they wish that the kids could always feel it.

The book, written by Hervé Éparvier and illustrated by Fred Benaglia, is a brief but sweet book with an extended metaphor about a stone. It talks about that stones are beautiful and lead many lives, and “a stone doesn’t need anything to be happy. It just is and that’s all.”

But stones can be used to build great buildings and make art. Sometimes pretty ones are kept on special shelves, and they can be used to play games or start fires.

Stones can be as big as mountains or as small as a grain of sand.

Or they can be small enough to fit in a child’s pocket as a reminder of a parent’s love.

A pebble to keep you company, to comfort you on days when you feel afraid, and to remind you that you are not alone.

This is one of those books that can definitely lead to tears on the part of the reader under the right circumstances. It would be super sweet to read this book with your kiddo (for Father’s Day or any other time) and then give them a little rock they can carry with them or keep on their bedside table.

The illustrations are colorful and look like ink drawings with color added. Kids will enjoy looking at all the details and how the images evoke emotions. It’s a lovely book and a quick but meaningful read for any time of year.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2024 by Ivy Kids Eco. Suggested retail price $19.99.

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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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