Fatherhood is a challenge. And when it comes to books, some fathers are just plain terrible. This week’s Top 5 Wednesday post focuses on my Favourite Literary Fathers in order to celebrate Father’s Day this coming weekend. While I want to talk about some superb examples of fatherhood in books, it’s equally as fun to talk about the terrible fathers, so I’m going to do a little mix of both.
I admit it was a bit of a challenge to think of my top 5 favourite fathers since it’s so much easier to think of examples of mothers in literature that I love. I wonder why that is? Underrepresentation of the struggle of fatherhood? Who knows. But despite this, I’m pretty pleased with this list as I believe all of these characters deserve to be celebrated for many different reasons and not just for the role they played in their children’s lives (for better or worse).
So without further ado, here are my Top 5 Favourite Literary Fathers!
This post is a part of the Top 5 Wednesday series from the Goodreads group of the same name. Check it out for weekly #T5W post prompts and to see how other book bloggers have answered this week’s theme!
Narrowing down all of the wonderful children’s books I enjoyed as a kid to just five was extremely difficult for this week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic: Children’s Books to Read as an Adult. I succeeded in not including Harry Potter, even though it would have been my obvious first choice. But this week I wanted to put five other great children’s books that I adore into the spotlight.