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BOOK 03 · MY MUMMY, MY DADDY

My Daddy is a Software Developer

"Daddy just types."

There is no engine, no uniform, nothing to point at — just a parent at a laptop. This book gives her something she can actually picture.

When she asks her daddy what he does all day, he does not talk about code. He lines Teddy up on the rug and gives him instructions: two steps forward, turn, one step forward. That is all a program is — little steps, in the right order. Then the mistakes, and why finding them is the best part. A warm, calm read-aloud about curiosity and patience, paced for bedtime.

Inside this book
  • Teddy runs his first program across the living-room rug
  • Arrows on a napkin: how you find the one pointing the wrong way
  • Lea writes a program of her own, and Teddy follows every step
  • Twelve full-page illustrations, created with AI assistance
  • Two colouring pages and four activity pages at the back
  • Book 3 in the My Mummy, My Daddy series about the jobs parents do
A thoughtful gift for a developer parent, for Father's Day, or for the child who has asked one too many times what is actually on that screen.

Inside the book

SIX SPREADS FROM THE FINISHED BOOK

Lea loved asking questions. One morning, as her daddy opened his laptop and warmed his hands round a mug, she tugged on...
To show her, Daddy lined Teddy up at one end of the rug. "Two steps forward. Turn. One step forward," he said, moving...
At the kitchen table, Daddy drew a row of arrows on a paper napkin. "When something goes wrong," he said, "I follow the...
On the wall behind him were rows of bright sticky notes, and a video call full of smiling faces from all over the...
When she got home, Lea wrote her own program. She drew arrows on paper — forward, forward, turn, stop — and Teddy...
"Everybody thinks the mistakes are the bad part," Daddy said that evening. "They're not. Finding the mistake is the...

Colouring pages from this book

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