Who's In My Family

Harris, Robie. (2012). Who's In My Family: All About Our Families. Sommerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press.

This detailed picture book with gentle illustrations explores the diversity of families. The illustrations are filled with people of different ages, nationalities, genders and abilities while the simple text reveals that families eat different foods, enjoy different activities, have different numbers (and genders) of parents and children and may contain different nationalities. Robie Harris certainly appears to have covered all the possible permutations and combinations of family. Families have happy times, sad times and angry times, but in the end "most of all and most of the time, and no matter what - children and grown-ups and their families really do love one another!"  This book is a wonderful tool for teaching about diversity and beginning discussions about tolerance. Even though all families are different, "every day and every night and all around the world, families talk, laugh, sing, play, cuddle up, tell stories, read books, and make sure their children are healthy and safe and loved".

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