Description
| Format: | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0553499386 |
| ISBN13: | 9780553499384 |
| Release Date: | March 2015 |
| Publisher: | Random House Studio |
| Length: | 32 Pages |
| Weight: | 0.80 lbs. |
| Dimensions: | 0.4" x 10.2" x 10.0" |
| Age Range: | 3 to 7 years |
| Grade Range: | Preschool to Grade 2 |
PreS-Gr 1--Imagine 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 portrait--a 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 and--brothers." The cartoon-style critters contrast pleasantly with more realistic elements--a 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
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