When Daddy sits down on the couch, his little boy pounces. “Let’s play rough, Daddy!” Such romping! Such uproarious tickling and tossing and tumbling! But when Daddy turns into a big hairy monster bear, things get a little too scary. Now what?

Lynne Jonell, who The Horn Book says, “goes straight to the heart of a child’s experience,” and award-winning artist Ted Rand are perfectly paired in this celebration of roughhousing and the sensitivity it can bring out in parents when it goes too far.