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Families, Families, Families!
Random House Studio
ISBN13:
9780553499384
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No matter your size, shape, or pedigree--if you love each other, you are a family! Moms, dads, sisters, brothers and even Great Aunt Sue appear in dozens of combinations, demonstrating all kinds of nontraditional families! Silly animals are cleverly depicted in framed portraits, and offer a warm celebration of family love. From School Library Journal PreS-Gr 1Imagine a house with many rooms, whose walls each have a different color or wallpaper, accenting a family portrait hanging there. On a rustic wooden wall hangs the first portraita large family of ducks posing beside a still pond. The next spread shows three pandas in pink vests, much like the pink oriental wallpaper behind them. Each portrait features a gently rhyming line: "Some children live with their grandparents
/and some live with an aunt./Some children have many pets
/and some just have a plant." All of these appealing images demonstrate different ways of being a family. "Some children live with their father./ Some children have two mothers./Some children are adopted./Some have stepsisters andbrothers." The cartoon-style critters contrast pleasantly with more realistic elementsa bamboo plant, a slender ceramic dog, a fat ceramic cat. Families of hippos, tigers, lions, ostriches, and whales join the other family groups in the final spread. The loud-and-clear message is that "if you love each other, then you are a family." And imagine the many children who will be reassured because they have found a portrait of a family they will recognize as their own. A solid choice for most libraries.Mary Jean Smith, formerly at Southside Elementary School, Lebanon, TN
- | Author: Suzanne Lang
- | Publisher: Random House Studio
- | Publication Date: Mar 24, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 32 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0553499386
- | ISBN-13: 9780553499384
- Author:
- Suzanne Lang
- Publisher:
- Random House Studio
- Publication Date:
- Mar 24, 2015
- Number of pages:
- 32 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0553499386
- ISBN-13:
- 9780553499384