My Daddy is a Pilot

He goes away for days at a time, and comes back smelling of somewhere else.

Your child knows the uniform and the suitcase by the door. She does not know what happens in between, and "flying a plane" is not really an answer. This book gives her the whole picture.

When she asks her daddy what a pilot does, he shows her: a paper aeroplane with Teddy riding on top, a cockpit with hundreds of tiny lights, an aeroplane taller than a house, and a grandma coming through the arrivals door into a pile of hugs. Then the part nobody expects — that the best bit of the job is not the flying at all. It is the checking, twice, every single time. A warm, calm read-aloud about care and patience, paced for bedtime.

Inside this book

• Teddy takes his first flight on a paper aeroplane
• Inside the cockpit: hundreds of little lights, and a window full of sky
• An aeroplane so big the trucks underneath look like beetles
• Lea builds her own cockpit out of cushions and a cardboard box
• Twelve full-page illustrations, created with AI assistance
• Two colouring pages and four activity pages at the back
• Book 15 in the My Mummy, My Daddy series about the jobs parents do

A thoughtful gift for a pilot or cabin crew family, for Father's Day, and a lovely thing to read the night before a first flight.