One country, one book.
No watered-down “world tour.” Each volume is a deep dive: food, greetings, music, a folktale, a street the author actually walked.
Interactive ebook series · Vol. 01
For every kid growing up far from where their roots are.
My Dad Is From is a children's ebook series that takes kids on a bedtime tour of the place their family came from — one country per book, read aloud by a dad who's been there. Stamps. Songs. Streets. The way home sounds.
My Dad Is FromTrinidad and TobagoA bedtime tour, read by Dad.
COVER ART / TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO AT DUSK
Vol. 01· Ferreira & Co. ·5K Children's Series
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO01PASSPORT · 2026
Finish the book — earn the stamp.
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO·JAMAICA·GUYANA·GHANA·PHILIPPINES·PORTUGAL·HAITI·BARBADOS·NIGERIA·COLOMBIA·
01 · The concept
A diaspora is a bedtime story that got paused.
Your kid was born here. Your parents were born there. Somewhere in the middle is a story nobody got around to telling. My Dad Is From is that story — one country at a time, in a dad's voice, with games that make the culture stick.
Read by a dad.
Every book is narrated by a dad from that country. Real accent. Real pronunciation. Real “when I was your age…”
Stamp the passport.
Finish the book, earn the stamp. Build a passport of where your family has been — and where you are going.
Games, not a quiz.
Memory-match the flag. Drag the mango into the chow. Tap the steelpan. Culture learned through hands, not a test.
02 · The library
Six countries shipping. A hundred to go.
We ship one book per country, done right. New volumes drop roughly every six weeks — voted in by readers, written by dads who lived there.
COVER / TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Available nowCOVER / JAMAICA
Available nowCOVER / GUYANA
Pre-orderCOVER / GHANA
Pre-orderCOVER / PHILIPPINES
Coming soonCOVER / PORTUGAL
Coming soon03 · Inside the book
The reader is a tiny playground.
My Dad Is From Trinidad and Tobago · Kid mode
SPOT ART / FRUIT STALL, SAN JUAN
Page 12Chapter 3 / 12
Chapter 3 · Market Morning
My dad from Trinidad and Tobago says the market wakes up before the sun does.
By six o'clock the aunties are calling out for you to come try a slice.
“Come nah, darling — sweet like honey, this one.”
Tap a fruit to hear its name in Trini.
Page 13· tap and learn ·
Read-aloud in Dad mode
Record your own voice over any page. Your kid hears you reading when you can't be there.
Dyslexia-friendly toggle
One tap swaps the font and loosens line-height. No separate edition, no shame.
Four mini-games per book
Memory-match, drag-match, tap-to-animate, coloring. Culture through the hands.
Reduced-motion respected
The Playground calms down automatically for kids who need it. Non-negotiable.
04 · The passport
Every book earns a stamp. Every stamp builds a map.
No stickers. No star charts. A real booklet, one stamp per country, kept for the whole childhood. Parents can print it. Grandparents will ask to see it.
Passport of the DiasporaHolder · Amara Ferreira · issued 2026
M.D.F.·5K SERIES
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO0104 · 18 · 26
JAMAICA0204 · 22 · 26
GUYANA03unearned
GHANA04unearned
PHILIPPINES05unearned
PORTUGAL06unearned
2 of 100 stamps earnedNext: Guyana
05 · For parents
A dashboard, not a data trap.
You own the account. The kid sees the book. You see the reading log, the streak, the words they tapped twice because they didn't know them. Nothing sold, nothing upsold mid-story.
- Kid-safe paywall. No purchases from the reader. Ever.
- Screen-time respectful. Books average 22 minutes. Built for bedtime.
- Record-your-voice mode. Your kid hears you, even on the nights you're away.
- One family, four profiles. Separate stamps, shared library.
mydadfrom.com / account / amara● live
Current streak14 nights
Books finished2 / 6
Minutes read312
wk 1wk 8
Amara finished My Dad Is From JamaicaTuesday · 8:42 pm · earned passport stamp #02
StampTapped: “pommecythere”, “chenette”My Dad Is From Trinidad and Tobago · Chapter 3
WordDad recording: 4 pagesSaved to library · Kevin
VoiceYour kids don't need a perfect dad. They need a present one — and when you can't be in the room, they need a book that sounds like you.
06 · Pricing
One price for the whole diaspora.
Single book
$12once
- One country, yours forever
- All 4 games + 1 stamp
- Dyslexia + read-aloud
- Family of 4 profiles
Family pass
Most families$7/ month
- Every book, every country
- New volume every 6 weeks
- Record-your-voice mode
- Printable passport
Grandparent
$49/ year
- Gift to one grandchild
- Your voice, every book
- Printed passport mailed
- Two profiles
07 · Vote next
You pick the next country.
The diaspora is voted, not assigned. Every six weeks the top country becomes the next volume. One vote per member per day.
Haiti
4,821 votesGriot, kompa, a grandmother who saw two republics.
Barbados
3,962 votesFlying fish, a little island with a long memory.
Nigeria
3,211 votesJollof wars settled. Lagos at school-run speed.
Colombia
2,804 votesArepas, cumbia, a dad who dances in the kitchen.
Vietnam
2,199 votesPhở mornings and a grandfather who took the boat.
Ireland
1,688 votesA green hill, a red-haired dad, a patient story.
Lebanon
1,422 votesZa'atar on the windowsill, cedar on the flag.
Mexico
1,388 votesSobremesa. Abuela's salsa. Dad on the grill.
08 · FAQ
The questions dads actually ask.
Each book is co-written with a dad from that country — somebody who grew up there and raised kids somewhere else. We pair them with an editor, an illustrator, and a voice director.
We don't do country clichés. No hand-drawn cartoon mascots, no rainbow stereotypes. We build each book on real cultural design references, food, language, and story — reviewed by a panel from that country.
4–9. Big type, short sentences, real vocabulary. The reader ships with a dyslexia-friendly font swap and a loosened line-height toggle.
The kid sees books, games, and stamps. You see the dashboard: streaks, minutes, words tapped. No purchases from the kid side — ever.
Yes. It's a PWA. Once a book is downloaded it reads on a plane, at grandma's, and everywhere the Wi-Fi pretends not to exist.
Yes — Family Pass and Grandparent plans include record-your-voice mode. Your kid hears you reading every page, even on the nights you're away.
Start with Trinidad and Tobago. Stamp one country tonight.
12-minute sample free. No credit card. Cancel the pass any time, keep the books you bought.