That's My Daddy and Pop

Overview

That's My Daddy and Pop is a 2010 picture book credited in the local catalog to Tina Rella, Monica Meza, and Molly Rose Siobhan Summer. The story follows Jessie after classmates draw pictures of their families and ask about her mother. At home, Daddy and Pop explain that Jessie was adopted, placing her family story within a larger account of how families can be made. Public evidence for this exact title is modest, but it is meaningful inside a companion set that also includes two-mother and two-father variants about donor conception and adoption. The record is strongest as a careful series-member entry: searchable as an individual item, and readable beside the related family-formation books.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The Adoption Variant

The local record distinguishes That's My Daddy and Pop from its companion Daddy and Pop. In this title, Jessie is adopted by her two fathers; in the companion title, the family formation story turns on egg donation. That difference gives the collection a useful pair of parallel records. The books appear to use similar classroom questions, home conversations, and reassuring language, while changing the family-building explanation. For visitors, the item shows how early 2010s small-press books tried to give children concise scripts for answering ordinary questions about family origin.^[1][2][4]

A Classroom Question

The story begins with children drawing their families at school. That setting matters because the question is not framed as a crisis created by Jessie, but as a familiar classroom moment when family assumptions become visible. The local catalog notes that Jessie explains what Daddy and Pop do with her, then asks them at home about her mother. The record therefore belongs with books that stage family diversity through everyday school speech: drawings, career day, class discussion, and questions from other children.^[1][5]

A Small Companion Set

Public listings and the local catalog place the book near Mom, Mama, and Me, Mom, Mama, and Me...And How I Came to Be!, and Daddy and Pop. The set is compact but conceptually precise: two-mother and two-father households are paired with donor conception or adoption explanations. The individual titles may not have a deep review trail, yet their grouping is valuable because it documents a family-formation publishing strategy outside the larger trade houses. The record remains calm and evidence-bound while still making the series structure clear.^[1][2][3][6]

Timeline

1. 2010Publication YearThe local catalog and public author listings date That's My Daddy and Pop to 2010.^[1][2]
2. 2010Family-Formation Companion SetThe related Mom, Mama, and Me and Daddy and Pop titles appear in the same 2010 family-formation cluster.^[1][2][6]
3. 2011Bibliographic ListingA public bibliography of children's books portraying LGBT parents lists the title under fathers with a 2010 CreateSpace date.^[4]

Companion Set

The local record places this item in a four-title family-formation set.

Citation

That's My Daddy and Pop. Tina Rella; illustrated by Monica Meza; produced by Molly Rose Siobhan Summer. CreateSpace, associated in the local record with the Love Makes a Family companion set, 2010. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-050.

Sources

1. Tarpey-Schwed catalog seed record · catalog
2. Goodreads author listing for Tina Rella · bibliographic
3. Goodreads author listing for Monica Meza · bibliographic
4. Children's Books Portraying LGBT Parents bibliography · bibliography
5. Appendix list of gay-family picture books · scholarship
6. Shady Grove Fertility recommended reading list · resource list