I included this book in my text set and think it's just great! It's a non-fiction photo book, fourteen children being featured and showing their families. I used this to represent different kinds of families. This book includes "nuclear" families, being both small and large, divorced families, one-parent families, a gay family, a foster family, a family living in a co-housing community, a family living with their grandmother, a family with one parent in prison, etc. This book has a lot of diversity, which makes it great. Plus, there are lots of photos showing the children's real families.
I would use this book in my classroom for a read-aloud and also do a couple activities with. One is we could have a discussion following reading the book asking students what they learned, if any of these kinds of families are new to them. Another activity would be to have students make their own family tree, as there is an example of a family tree at the back of the book. Some students may not have made a family tree before, so this would be a good opportunity. Another activity would be, of course, to have students bring a photo of their own family and briefly describe them. We would then post these pictures and descriptions around the classroom. Handy book to have to show the diversity of families.
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