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Daddy and Pop
Tina Rella, Monica Meza, Molly Summer
Published 2010
Book
A two-father family-making picture book connected to a small companion series on donor conception, surrogacy, and adoption.
Overview
Daddy and Pop is a 2010 picture book associated with Tina Rella, Monica Meza, and Molly Summer. The local collection record places it inside a four-title Love Makes a Family sequence: two books about mothers and two about fathers, with paired differences between donor conception and adoption. Public evidence is modest but useful. Randy Tarpey-Schwed's checklist lists Daddy and Pop as a CreateSpace picture book about two fathers, while fertility-resource pages name it as a book-and-CD resource by Rella and Meza, produced by Summer. The record is strongest when read as part of a small family-making series rather than as an isolated title.[1][2][3][5][6]
A Companion Family-Making Series
The collection record treats Daddy and Pop as one member of a four-title companion sequence. The two-mother titles distinguish donor conception from adoption; the two-father titles do the same for a child with Daddy and Pop. This structure is the central public context for the item. It shows a small publishing effort that did not simply name same-sex parents, but separated family-making routes into parallel stories for different household forms.[1][2][3]
Egg Donation In A Child's Terms
The local summary says Daddy and Pop follows the plot of the adoption companion, but changes the family-making explanation: Jessie was conceived with help from an egg donor. That distinction matters in the collection because many children's books about same-sex parents emphasize household acceptance, while fewer also explain reproductive assistance. Here the two-father household is linked to a specific origin story, framed for a young reader through family conversation.[1][5][6]
Circulation Through Fertility Resources
The public trail is strongest in fertility and donor-conception resource contexts rather than in trade review sources. Carrie Eichberg's resource page and the LA Family Building resource page both list Daddy and Pop among children's books about family building. That placement is useful evidence of audience and use. The book appears less as a broadly reviewed literary title and more as a practical resource for families explaining donor conception and same-sex parenthood.[5][6][8]
Small-Press Evidence And Caution
The book's public record remains thin. Open Library has a sparse work-level entry, Goodreads author pages preserve contributor associations, and the public checklist gives CreateSpace and same-sex-father categorization. Those sources support a careful public record, but not an extensive claim about reception, editions, or circulation. The Mechanics copy will be especially useful for confirming the title page, audio component, and exact contributor order.[7][3][4][2]
Timeline
- 2010Publication yearPublic checklist and creator-listing evidence place Daddy and Pop in 2010.[2][3]
- 2010Related fertility-education titleTina Rella is also publicly associated with Surrogacy Helps Make a Family Grow, issued with Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles.[8]
- 2010sResource-list afterlifeFertility-resource pages list Daddy and Pop among children's books for donor conception, surrogacy, and family-building conversations.[5][6]
Love Makes A Family Sequence
The companion set separates parent gender and family-making route into related child-facing stories.
2010
Mom, Mama, and Me... and How I Came to Be!
Two-mother donor-conception story.
2010
Mom, Mamma, and Me
Two-mother adoption story.
2010
That's My Daddy and Pop
Two-father adoption story.
2010
Daddy and Pop
Two-father egg-donation story.
Explore Connections
Browse direct links, shared themes, and nearby publication dates.
Linked records
That's My Daddy and Pop
The local record describes the two books as paired two-father stories, with adoption in one and egg donation in the other.
Mom, Mama, and Me... and How I Came to Be!
The two-mother books use the same series logic to distinguish donor conception and adoption in another household form.
Where Did I Really Come From?
Both records belong near books that explain conception, donor assistance, or family origin to children.
How My Family Came to Be: Daddy, Papa and Me
Both are two-father books centered on how a child entered the family, though they use different family-making routes.
Shared themes
Who's in a Family?
A Tricycle Press many-family picture book that places same-sex parents inside a wider early-childhood family taxonomy.
What Matters Most
A self-published many-family picture book about a child learning that family is defined by care rather than structure.
The Baby Kangaroo Treasure Hunt, a Gay Parenting Story
A kangaroo story explaining egg donation and surrogacy for a two-father family.
Two Daddies ... and Me
A self-published picture book about a young child with two fathers, later listed in assisted-reproduction resource guides.
Nearby dates
A Tale of Two Daddies
A VanitaBooks companion picture book using questions and everyday care to present a child with two fathers.
Children's Books with LGBT Themes
A self-published reference object that helps document how LGBTQ children's books were listed and aggregated.
City Life
A picture book about a child with two mothers moving through ordinary urban activities.
Dad David, Baba Chris and Me
A British adoption and fostering resource book about Ben, his two adoptive fathers, and school bullying.
Citation
Daddy and Pop. Tina Rella, Monica Meza, Molly Summer. CreateSpace, 2010. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-051.
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Sources
- Local collection catalog record for Daddy and Pop · catalog
- Checklist of Children's Books Featuring LGBT Family Members · bibliography
- Goodreads author page for Tina Rella · creator_listing
- Goodreads author page for Monica Meza · creator_listing
- Carrie Eichberg resource list for children's books on family building · resource_list
- LA Family Building articles and children's books resource page · resource_list
- Open Library work record for Daddy and Pop · library
- Open Library record for Surrogacy Helps Make a Family Grow · library
- Family Equality early-elementary book list · education