Cover of Jennifer Has Two Daddies.

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Jennifer Has Two Daddies

Creator

Priscilla Galloway; illustrated by Ana Auml

Date

Published 1980s

Format

Collection Context

A children's book about a father and stepfather, useful here as a cautionary context record.

StepfamiliesFathers and daughtersDivorceFamily changeChildren's literatureFeminist publishing

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Overview

Jennifer Has Two Daddies is a children's book by Priscilla Galloway, illustrated by Ana Auml and associated with The Women's Press. It belongs in the collection not because it clearly represents gay fathers, but because it shows how family vocabulary can be unstable. The local catalog describes Jennifer moving between her mother's home with a stepfather and her biological father's apartment. Public summaries also describe one real father and one stepfather. That makes the item a useful context record: visitors searching for two-father representation can see why this title matters, while also seeing that it is primarily a divorce and stepfamily book.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Not A Two-Father Couple

The title can easily draw a modern reader toward gay-father representation, especially inside this collection. The supported record is different. Local notes describe Jennifer's biological father and her stepfather, and public summaries use the same distinction between a real daddy and a real stepdaddy. The record therefore makes the correction visible without treating the item as a mistake. It is evidence of family naming, not an explicit gay-parent narrative.^[1][3][4]

Stepfamily Language

The book belongs to a children's literature tradition that helps young readers interpret divorce, shared households, and remarriage. Jennifer's problem is not only where she lives, but how she understands parental names after family change. That makes the item relevant to the collection's broader interest in nontraditional family forms. It expands the field beyond same-sex parents to include the everyday language children use for stepfamilies, separation, and multiple homes.^[1][2][8]

Bibliographic Fragility

The record is also useful because its bibliographic trail is uneven. Open Library lists a January 1983 publication date, Canadian bibliography sources list 1985, and bookseller data may describe a 1990 Women's Press edition. Those differences are not unusual for small-press children's books, but they matter for an institutional collection. Physical inspection of the title page and copyright page can clarify the held copy without erasing the value of the wider bibliographic trail.^[2][6][4]

Feminist Publishing Context

The Women's Press gives the item a publishing context worth preserving. Feminist archive sources describe the Canadian Women's Educational Press as a Toronto feminist publishing project founded in the early 1970s to make writing by, for, and about women more widely available. A stepfamily children's book from that environment broadens the collection's map. Family diversity here is not only LGBTQ representation; it is also feminist attention to children's domestic experience.^[9][10][6]

Timeline

1972Publisher contextThe Women's Press began as a Toronto feminist publishing project in the early 1970s.^[9][10]
1983Open Library dateOpen Library records a January 1983 publication date for Jennifer Has Two Daddies.^[2]
1985Canadian bibliography dateCanadian bibliography and IHLIA records list a Toronto Women's Press edition from 1985.^[6][3]
1986/1988Review-index trailA Canadian review archive index preserves review traces for the title in the later 1980s.^[7]

Bibliographic Notes

The public trail preserves conflicting date information that should be resolved against the held copy.

1983

Open Library record

Open Library records January 1983 with ISBN metadata.^[2]

1985

Canadian bibliography record

Canadian bibliography sources list a 1985 Women's Press edition.^[6][3]

Explore Connections

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Linked records

Title contrast

Heather Has Two Mommies

Both titles use family naming in a memorable way, but Jennifer Has Two Daddies concerns a father and stepfather while Heather Has Two Mommies is an explicit two-mother family book.

References [1][12][3]

Stepfamily and divorce context

Saturday is Pattyday

Both items help the collection show family change and divided time with adults, though their family structures and representational stakes differ.

References [8][13]

Two-father search contrast

Daddy's Roommate

Daddy's Roommate is an explicit gay-father household record, while Jennifer Has Two Daddies is a stepfamily record whose title may initially point visitors in the wrong direction.

References [3][14]

Shared themes

Feminist publishing

Nearby dates

English edition 1983

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