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Two Daddies ... and Me
Robbi Anne Packard; illustrated by Lori Ann McElroy
Published 2009
Collection Context
A self-published picture book about a young child with two fathers, later listed in assisted-reproduction resource guides.
Overview
Two Daddies ... and Me is a short picture book by Robbi Anne Packard, illustrated by Lori Ann McElroy and published by AuthorHouse in 2009. Public resource lists describe it as a book for very young children about a girl with two fathers. Its collection value lies in two overlapping histories: the growth of two-father picture books and the need for child-facing books about assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and family formation. The item is not supported by a large review record, but it appears in specialist resource lists and in later scholarship on self-published assisted-reproduction books, making it a useful context record.[1][2][3][4]
Two-Father Domestic Life
Public summaries describe the book as following a young girl's ordinary life with her two fathers. That makes the item part of a quiet representational line: books that make same-sex-parent family life visible without building the story around conflict. Its tone appears closer to daily-life affirmation than to legal debate, school controversy, or coming-out narrative.[2][3][1]
Assisted-Reproduction Context
The title is also important because resource lists place it under surrogacy and family building for same-sex male couples. That context distinguishes it from many two-dad picture books that focus only on household roles or adoption. Here, the public source trail connects representation to questions of origin, reproduction, and how adults explain family formation to young children.[2][3][4]
Self-Published Evidence
The self-published imprint is not incidental. Many early or specialized LGBTQ-family and assisted-reproduction books circulated outside the strongest trade-review channels. Their historical value often appears through bibliographies, professional resource lists, and collecting practices rather than through major review journals. This item therefore helps show how families and librarians found materials before large publishers served every family structure.[4][2][5]
Copy-Specific Caution
The strongest public claims are bibliographic and contextual: title, creator, illustrator, publisher, two-father subject, and assisted-reproduction setting. The local record preserves a more detailed reading of the ending, but that level of interpretation depends on the held copy. For public display, the record is most reliable as a concise item page linked to broader two-father and family-formation clusters.[1][2][3]
Timeline
- 2009AuthorHouse publicationPublic resource-list records place Two Daddies ... and Me with AuthorHouse in 2009.[2][4]
- 2010Assisted-reproduction scholarshipSarles and Mendell included the title in a Children and Libraries article on self-published children's books about assisted reproductive technology.[4]
- 2014Fertility-resource listingA Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society resource list placed the book under surrogacy, gestational carriers, and same-sex-couple resources for two dads.[3]
Edition And Object History
Known public references point to a 2009 AuthorHouse paperback; the held copy can clarify exact title-page punctuation and any later printing details.
2009
AuthorHouse edition
Resource-list sources identify the AuthorHouse edition with ISBN 9781438955582.
Explore Connections
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Linked records
Daddy and Pop
Both items belong to the collection's two-father family-formation thread, where children's books explain family life through origin stories and assisted reproduction.
Dad David, Baba Chris and Me
The two records help map how books for young readers represented children living with two fathers in daily household settings.
And Tango Makes Three
Assisted-reproduction resource lists place Two Daddies ... and Me near better-known gay-parent titles such as And Tango Makes Three, showing how families searched across adoption, surrogacy, and same-sex-parent books.
References [3]
Shared themes
The Generous Jefferson Bartleby Jones
A 1991 Alyson picture book in which a child with two fathers shares their time and care with friends.
One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads
An Alyson Wonderland two-father picture book later named in a Canadian classroom-resource case.
The Roos, a Home for Baby
A Lulu picture book about two Daddyroos adopting a Babyroo and finding a way to carry the child.
Recipes of How Babies Are Made
A child-facing explanation of conception, donor gametes, surrogacy, embryo donation, IVF, and adoption.
Nearby dates
And Baby Makes 4
A photographic picture book about a child with two mothers becoming an older sibling after donor insemination.
Arwen and Her Daddies
A Dutch-to-English two-father adoption picture-book trail shaped by parent publishing and community bibliography.
Daddy, Papa, and Me
A board book placing a toddler and two fathers inside everyday care.
Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book
A feminist Reach And Teach / PM Press coloring book about gender stereotypes and child-facing media.
Citation
Two Daddies ... and Me. Robbi Anne Packard; illustrated by Lori Ann McElroy. AuthorHouse, 2009. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-085.
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Sources
- Local collection catalog record for Two Daddies ... and Me · catalog
- Donor Conception, Surrogacy, and IVF: Books for Children entry for Two Daddies ... and Me · resource_list
- Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society donor conception resource list · resource_list
- Sarles and Mendell, Where Did I Really Come From? · scholarship
- Carrie Eichberg resources list for non-traditional families · resource_list