Daddy's Sandwich

A Ruby Roo Story

by Pip Jones, Pip Jones

"Kids will love groaning over all of the crazy ingredients, and then they’ll want to make a sandwich for someone they love!"- School Library Journal

"This book may spark inspiration―dads best hide their treasures." - Kirkus Reviews

Join one little girl on her quest to make her father the perfect sandwich with ALL of his favorite things. What starts out simple sandwich soon turns into a delightful surprise. This is a wonderful celebration of father-daughter relationships.

Full of imagination and playful language, this is a brilliantly funny board book for young chefs.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Storytime, Family

26 pages, Board Book

First published May 7, 2015

About the author

Pip was born in Cheltenham, UK, where she spent her childhood gobbling up books and dreaming about being an author herself. At the age of 19, she began a career in journalism, writing and editing for local and national newspapers and magazines. After the births of her daughters, Pip began writing for parenting magazines and websites. In 2012, she won the inaugural Greenhouse Funny Prize, with a series of stories about Squishy McFluff: The Invisible Cat, who Pip had based on her elder daughter's 'real' imaginary kitten. The first book in the series was published by Faber Children's in 2014. Pip's first picture book, Daddy's Sandwich, was published by Faber Children's in May 2015 and was shortlisted in the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards Picture Book category in the same year. Pip continues to write the Squishy McFluff series, and a raft of new titles are planned in the coming three years, including three further picture books, and a new young reader series. Watch this space!

Reviews

[Neda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really loved it! In my opinion this is a real Children's Literature text.. It defamiliarizes the idea of sandwich in a flash! Amazing! It is also good for decentration technique.

[BeccaJBooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book for the lil one. Really well illustrated, and a funny story that parents will not find too mind numbing :)

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[Marianna Sharktooth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and funny, recommended especially for all the dads.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great children's book for ages 2 and up. It has colorful and cute illustrations and an entertaining premise. It is also a good length - easy to get through when you are committed to reading 3 books at bedtime!

When I read through it for the first time with my almost 3 year old son, I made sure to point out the silliness of most of the items that were being added to the sandwich. It is easy to make this interactive for a young child: "Do slippers belong on a sandwich??" He caught on right away, and cracked up more and more after each page. He loves to point out all the items on the sandwich at the end, especially the little girl sitting at the top: "She might fall down!"

The most telling part of my review: this is a book that my son has now requested night after night, and one that he wants to read again as soon as we get to the end!

*I received this book for free through a Goodreads FirstReads giveaway

[Clwseattle · Rating 5 out of 5]

So very cute and funny! Daddy's girls will love it

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty cute book about a dad watching this daughter. As dad's typically do, they get distracted by sports and don't always "watch" their kids. Ha! This little girl decides to construct her dad a super-terrific sandwich with all of his favorite things. Cameras, ketchup, tea and biscuits...you get the picture. I bet this dad wishes he had't got distracted by sports! This is a perfect book for any "wild child" with a huge imagination.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would all of your favorite things be good on a sandwich? Probably not...but the idea is cute and clever in this book. Readers understand what Daddy expects, but when daughter begins pulling things together, the process changes a bit. Very simple and amusing for readers to enjoy together.

[Patricia Gmitrovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing better than a good sandwich!! Dad will love it.

[H Li · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 for Laura s colorful playful illustrations. But but kids at this age are not that silly. Creative writing is not making illogical plots, but rather making logical connections between things. Everything still have to make sense, even in the case of small probability events. Unless the author intend to depict a girl with low IQ. iN The fly leaf , a kid aged3 wrote " she is so silly that my face fell off" .

Have the publishers really consider that a compliment ?

Writing children's story is not treating them as babies, they are smart indeed.

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's the old put everything Daddy like on a sandwich, including his tool belt and bubble bath and whatnot. It's cute and funny, but I've read this joke before. I, of course, appreciate a good father-daughter relationship, but I don't actually like sandwiches!

[Felicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book from Goodreads First Reads and It was so funny. It's a really cute book and fun to read to kids. The pictures are great too.

[Casandria · Rating 3 out of 5]

A young girl makes a sandwich with all of daddy's favorite things (including some inedible ones).

[Misspennylane · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a cute book. I liked the illustrations, too. I gave it to my niece, for her kids, and she really liked it.