Dad Goes to School (Robin Hill School Series) (Ready-to-Read Series) » (Ready-to-Read, Level 1)

Margaret McNamara is a writer and an editor who has spent many years working in children's publishing. She is the author of all the books in the Robin Hill School series, and gets many of her ideas from her own daughter's experiences at school. Margaret McNamara lives with her family in New York City, though she likes to spend as much of the summer as she can in Maine.

Mike Gordon has illustrated all of the Robin Hill School books, but his work covers a truly wide range, extending from educational and non-fiction books to entertainment and fiction. Mike's illustration now includes both design and illustration for major publishers such as Harper Collins, Headline, Ladybird, Longman, Penguin, Random Century, Reed International, Simon & Schuster, Walker Books, Western Publishing and Wayland. The international publication of many of the titles illustrated by Mike means his work is seen in over eighteen countries. In addition, Mike has produced more than 400 humorous greeting card designs for clients such as Hallmark, as well as the major UK companies, Hanson White and Gordon Fraser. He lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California.

It's Parents Week for Mrs. Connor's first graders. Each day another parent is visiting and showing what they do. But Ayanna's dad isn't like the other parents. Will her classmates like him anyway?

Children's Literature

At this school parents come into the classroom during a special week and talk about their jobs. They range from a mom who works in a knitting store to parents who own and work in an animal hospital. Ayanna is worried because her dad is not like other parents—he has a job that does not seem like a real job, but it is. He may not get dressed up and head out for an office every day but he does have a job, and when he shows the kids what he does he is a big hit. Ayanna is delighted and lets him know that he is the best dad ever. Cartoon-style illustrations fit the story and readers who have parents with unusual or home-based jobs will find this story quite reassuring.