Families, families, families! / by Suzanne Lang & Max Lang.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0375974261 (hardcover library binding : alk. paper)
- 0553499386 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780375974267 (hardcover library binding : alk. paper)
- 9780553499384 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Family & Pets | Lang Suzanne | Available | 33111008016624 | ||||
Children's Book | Northport Library | Children's Picturebook | Lang Suzanne | Available | 33111007346204 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 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
From the Hardcover edition.
"A host of animals portrays all kinds of non-traditional families"-- Provided by publisher.