Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada

Jimmy Fallon’s runaway bestselling picture book is a simple, silly campaign for one goal: teaching babies to say Dada first. Across bright pages, animal parents coach their little ones, each attempt ending in a stubborn Dada as Miguel Ordóñez’s cartoon creatures mug along. Built for read-aloud repetition, it is less a story than a joke shared between exhausted new fathers and their babies, and it launched Fallon’s second career as a children’s author.