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Ryan Milligan resides in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and two daughters. The author of "My Very Punny Dad," Ryan doesn't hide his affinity for "dad jokes". His love of puns and word play began at a young age when he read "Amelia Bedelia" and became fascinated with how language can be used in creative and silly ways. When he's not reading books and having fun with his family, Ryan is an information technology professional specializing in software engineering and data analysis. He's also a connoisseur of hot sauce and wildly inconsistent with his mid-irons on the golf course, though he always wears two pairs of pants in case he ever gets a hole-in-one.
Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
“My Dad was standing with his plate,/ but only on one leg./ “A BALANCED breakfast,”/ he explained,/ while chewing on his eggs.” Have you ever tried eating standing up? On one leg? Does it create a ‘balanced’ meal to eat it standing up on one leg? Well, this very punny Dad believed it did. And that wasn’t all. He was full of puns for just about everything. You know what a pun is, right? It’s a play on words that is meant to be funny. But, like everything else, you can sometimes have too much of a good thing – or is it a ‘gouda’ thing? You can’t really get enough of scenes like Dad shredding cheese, holding the grater with one hand, and exclaiming, “I’m doing grate!”
Ryan Milligan’s children’s book, My Very Punny Dad, is full of laughs and, yes, you guessed it, lots of very clever puns. Laughter is the best medicine and helps us manage the more difficult times of the day, like when “A truck of grapes was much to blame/ for just how late I am./ They all spilled out onto the road/ and caused a traffic JAM!” Not only are these puns clever and light-hearted, but they’re plotted into a story told in rhyming verse – quite lyrically funny, wouldn’t you agree? The illustrations are just as clever as the lyrical puns. This is definitely a fun read, but the best part of the story is the family bond, the love readers will instantly feel that exists between the members of this very punny family.
