DearDad — The Keepsake Book
He's heard "I love you"
a thousand times.He's never heard why.
30 prompts. You fill in the blanks. He gets the one thing nobody else on earth could give him — in your handwriting, in his hands, forever.
Finish it in one sitting · Ships fast from the U.S.
30 Guided PromptsFull-Colour PagesNo Writing Skill NeededBuilt To Last Decades
Turn the sound on
What's actually inside the book
The part everyone's scared of
You don't have to
find the words.
Every page starts the sentence for you. All you do is finish it. That's why DearDad actually gets finished instead of sitting in a drawer half-blank.
07
Our favourite way to spend quality time together is to…
14
The advice of yours I still hear in my head is…
23
You've always encouraged me to…
30
If I could thank you for only one thing, it would be…
Page after page after page
Full-colour spreads · Real print quality
Why DearDad hits differently
Four things a
gift card can't do.
Uncopyable by design
Nobody can buy him this. Not your siblings, not his friends. It only exists once you've written it.
30, not 100
Long enough to mean something. Short enough that you'll actually finish it tonight. That number is deliberate.
Written for grown kids
No cartoon fonts, no crayon energy. Adult typography and prompts that go where a card can't.
Made to survive him
Thick coated stock, tight perfect binding, full-bleed colour printing. A keepsake, not a notepad.
The 40 seconds you're buying
He won't say much. That's the point.
Start to giftable in one evening
Three steps. That's it.
1
Open it
Thirty numbered spreads, each one already asking the right question.
2
Finish the sentences
One line or ten. Messy handwriting is a feature — it's proof it came from you.
3
Hand it to him
Then watch him read it twice, go quiet, and put it somewhere safe.
Wrapped, handed over, kept
Some dads never ask for anything.
So you have to be the one who says it first.
Straight answers
Ask the awkward stuff.
Then you're exactly who this was built for. You never stare at an empty page — every prompt hands you the first half of the sentence and you land the ending. Four words is a valid answer. The book does the heavy lifting; you supply the truth.
Orders are picked and dispatched from our U.S. facility on the next business day, with tracking emailed the moment it leaves. If you're up against a hard date, order early in the week and leave yourself a buffer for writing time — you'll want an evening with it before you wrap it.
No. Every interior spread is full-bleed colour print — not black lines on filler paper. The stock is heavy enough that ballpoint and gel pens don't bleed through, the binding lies open without cracking the spine, and the matte cover doesn't scuff in a drawer. The page-flip clips above are unedited product footage.
Reserved dads are the core customer, not the exception. He probably won't make a speech. He'll read it, say something short like "this is really nice," and then you'll find it on his nightstand six months later. That's the reaction. It counts.
It's written for grown sons and daughters — the prompts reach into shared history, advice and gratitude a child wouldn't have yet. That said, plenty of parents fill it out alongside a younger kid, and the lines are wide enough for big handwriting.
Cross it out and keep going. Every dad who's received one says the same thing: the crossed-out line is the part that proves a human wrote it. Perfection isn't the goal — his name in your handwriting is.
Yes. The prompts are about the relationship, not the biology — time spent, lessons given, things you've never said out loud. Stepdads and grandfathers are two of the most common recipients we hear about.
Verified buyers
2,847 dads,
quietly wrecked.
4.9★★★★★
Based on 2,847 reviews
MMarcus T.Verified2 weeks ago
★★★★★My father has never cried in front of me. Until Sunday.
I'm 38 and we're not a talking family. I filled this out over two nights and handed it to him with no wrapping paper, just the book. He got to page 12 and had to stop. Best thing I've ever given anybody.
PPriya R.Verified1 month ago
★★★★★Genuinely surprised by the print quality
I ordered expecting a flimsy journal. Every page is proper full-colour and the paper is thick — my gel pen didn't ghost through once. Feels like something from a design shop, not a marketplace listing.
DDylan K.Verified3 weeks ago
★★★★★Took me 45 minutes. Not 45 minutes of agony.
I write maybe two paragraphs a year. The prompts basically wrote it for me — I just finished the sentences honestly. Thirty was the right number; at a hundred I'd have quit around forty.
SSarah-Jane W.Verified5 days ago
★★★★★Arrived in three days, tracked the whole way
Cut it fine before his birthday and it still landed with a day to spare. Packaging was flat and rigid so no bent corners. Already ordered a second one for my stepdad.
AAndre M.Verified2 months ago
★★★★★He keeps it in the truck
Dad's a contractor, not a book guy. It lives in the centre console now and he's shown it to at least four people at the yard. Cover's still holding up fine after all that abuse.
LLeah C.Verified6 weeks ago
★★★★★Filled it in for my dad's 70th with my brother
We split the prompts between us and did fifteen each, so it's both our handwriting. Didn't plan that, it just worked. Prompt 23 broke him.
TTom H.Verified3 months ago
★★★★★Gave it to my father-in-law. Instant promotion.
Twelve years of polite gift exchanges and this is the first one he actually reacted to. He read three pages out loud at the table.
NNadia F.Verified4 weeks ago
★★★★☆Four stars for me, five for him
I'd have liked one or two blank pages at the back for a longer letter. Everything else was perfect and he's read it more times than I'm comfortable admitting.
RRyan O.Verified2 weeks ago
★★★★★Bought it because I ran out of ideas. Stayed for the reaction.
Honestly a panic buy. Turned into the only present anyone talked about that weekend. My mum's already asked if there's a version for her.
GGrace L.Verified7 weeks ago
★★★★★Filled it in for my dad's last Christmas
He passed in March. It's on my shelf now and I'm so glad I said all of it while he could read it. Please don't put this off.
JJonas B.Verified1 week ago
★★★★★Binding actually lies flat
Small thing, but it matters when you're writing in it. No fighting the spine, no cracked glue. Someone thought about how it would be used, not just how it looks.
CCaitlin D.Verified5 weeks ago
★★★★★The prompts are the product
Anyone can print lined pages. These questions pulled things out of me I'd never said to him in 29 years. Worth it for that alone.
You've reached the end — 2,847 in total
You're going to
tell him eventually.
Make it something he can hold. Thirty blanks, one evening, and a book he'll still have in twenty years.
Tracked U.S. dispatch · Protective flat packaging