While Mom is away, Dad does his best to get his pups ready for school, but Zoomer's wild imagination has him far too busy to cooperate.

Arthur and his friends try to find a substitute to attend the Father's Day picnic with Buster, whose father is not around much since his parents' divorce.

"Ella is excited for her first day at a new school. Glimmering pencil case? Check! Shimmering backpack? Check! Glittery ribbons in her hair? Check! She can't wait to meet the other kids and share her sparkly personality. But her first day doesn't go quite as planned: Her new classmates don't like her disco-ball shoes, her PB&J-with-sprinkles sandwich, or her rainbow-y unicorn painting. Ella decides to try to be less sparkly at school the next day...

Neglected by her busy father, a lonely young girl receives a toy gorilla for her birthday and together they take a miraculous trip to the zoo.

A father and his young daughter go up and down the aisles of a supermarket selecting groceries.

Jojo and Daddy bake a cake for a surprise recipient.

After receiving assurances that his father would save him from increasingly dangerous and scary pirates, a boy reassures his father in return.

"A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self."--

Sebastian the turtle tells his father about all the jobs he might do when he grows up, from fireman to skydiver, and agrees that being a father might be the best of all.

Mudge looks forward to the Mother's Day surprise that Henry and his father cook up for Henry's mother.