Children's Books for Geek Parents?

Lithium_Golem asks: "My wonderful daughter will be nine months old next month and I figure that it's time to buy her some new bedtime story material. My problem is that I can't find any children's books that describe fathers as white collar workers, let alone computer geeks. For example, many of the stories I find portray the ideal father as a fireman, carpenter or truck driver. I'm not looking for anything specific like 'I love my dad because he's a programmer,' I'm just looking for a story that will help her understand what I do for a living when she's older. So, readers of Slashdot, does anyone know of a children's book written by or for geeks, or should I write my own?"

Comments

Easy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just try any old technical manual off your shelf. They'll know just what you go through every day, and it'll put 'em right to sleep, too.

Next?

Everybody Poops

[nuxx]

I *must* recommend Everybody Poops or any of it's companion books such as The Gas We Pass.

Recommendations

[Ridgelift]

I'd recommend printing off Microsoft product descriptions from their website. They have a huge collection of fairy tales.

Write your own ...

[Breakerofthings]

Be sure to write it in perl, basic, or maybe logo ... at least pseudocode :)

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $jane = Girl->new(age => 7);
my $spot = Doggie::JackRusselTerrier->new();

$jane->see($s pot);
$jane->see($spot->run);

Wow. I can't believe I just wrote that ... must get out more...

The possible titles amuse me ...
Junie B. Jones Determines that Cleaning Her Room is NP-Complete
The Little Finite State Automaton That Could
Goldilocks and the Three SysAdmins
The Monsters in My Code

OK, it's late. My apologies for subjecting you all to my incoherent rambling ... mods, please mod me '-1 lame'

BTW, I tell my daughter that I write video games (I am a developer, but not a game developer) because, at 8, that is the only software that she can relate to.

Ping!

[ibbey]

Well, not so much about Geek parents, but there's always this classic childrens book.

SuperProgrammer

[Glonoinha]

Yea - creating a hero from a software or hardware guy is as easy as unplugging the router before you leave the house to go to work. By 9am you are getting calls from home because the kids can't surf the net and wife can't 'do email'. By the time you get home the natives are restless, or perhaps on the verge of panic.

You get home, put a bath towel on your back like a cape and ~fly~ around the house from computer to computer using your ~x-ray~ vision to ~diagnose the problem~. Then you plug in the router, fix the Internet, and you are a hero.

Works for me about once a month.