Baby Dad: Busy Days

A healing picture book designed specifically for parents.
From the birth of a baby to the imagination of the child growing up and leaving home,
A hilarious and insightful depiction of the laughter and tears of parenting!

Shinsuke Yoshitake draws on his own experience.
Combining careful life observation and profound understanding,
In addition to writing about children, I also write about interesting things between couples.
Tell you something other parenting books don’t say!

【Training to Become a Father】

When I was a child and a student, I was praised for everything I did. After becoming an office worker, work becomes "one's job" and "not being praised" is taken for granted. Even though I’m working so hard…I feel like being an adult is a little sad. However, looking back now, it turns out that it was all "training to become a father."

【Childcare Remuneration 】
I get irritated by my kids almost every day. However, when I picked up the child who was sleeping on the sofa, I could feel that he was half asleep and half awake, with his arms around my neck. This "reward" can to some extent offset the hard work of parents during the day. This is a strange "deal" that office workers can't imagine.

【Dad’s Responsibilities 】
The dazzling and ever-changing life of parenting makes fathers suffer a lot. But there is one thing that you should never forget no matter how hard it is, and that is "Mom works very hard." If the mother has a job, the hard work will be doubled! So, to put it bluntly, a father's responsibility is to do everything he can to make his mother happy.

【Father's Growth 】
The growth of a child is obvious, but what is the growth of a father? Is it "accept everything and look at the current situation calmly"? Or "forget how I felt before I became a father"? Or "my mother scolds me less often"?

【Baby Dad 】
Will there be a day when "Father graduates"? The first time I sent my child to elementary school, the first time my child disobeyed me, the first time I faced my child leaving home to be independent, the first time I held my grandchild in my arms... If you think about it carefully, many of the "first times" in the future were accompanied by "chaos". Perhaps dads are still learning to walk no matter when, and at the same time, they are enjoying “things that can only be seen while toddling”!

Readers Recommendation

A book with laughter and tears
I am the father of an almost three-year-old child. I came across this book in a bookstore and started reading it. As I was reading it, I couldn't help but keep saying "Yes! It's true!" My hands couldn't stop turning the pages, and I quickly finished the whole book. Although parenting is hard in many ways, this book gave me a lot of energy. Keep it up! ——Five-star recommendation from Amazon Japan readers

I like this work very much and I am deeply fascinated by it.

Of course, I would recommend this book to new fathers. I would also recommend it to mothers. After reading it, you can understand the father's feelings a little bit. Mothers who are always anxious may also reflect on themselves (laughs).

ah! It's true

As I read, I had a feeling of "this is really true!" and a sense of novelty of "so there is such a thing". Shinsuke Yoshitake's book carefully captures various scenes in daily life and draws them in a very funny way. It also made me realize that in the daily life of parenting, all kinds of surprises and firsts happen one after another. This is an important part of our growth as parents, and it makes me want to cherish these daily bits and pieces. ——EhonNavi dad reader lazy-planet (daughter is five years old)

About the Writer/Illustrator

Yoshitake Shinsuke

Japanese picture book writer, illustrator, and father of two children. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1973, he completed the comprehensive modeling course at the Graduate School of Art, University of Tsukuba. He is good at capturing the inadvertent things in daily life, and uses his own unique perspective to create a variety of popular works, including sketch collections, children's books, illustrations, decorative paintings, etc. He once published "Is This an Apple?" "Maybe" won the first prize of the MOE Picture Bookstore Award and the Special Award of the Bologna Lagazzi Children's Book Award.