{"product_id":"families-families-families","title":"Families, Families, Families!","description":"No matter your size, shape, or pedigree--if you love each other, you are a family! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoms, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom School Library Journal \u003cbr\u003ePreS-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","brand":"Random House Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48000271909053,"sku":"BS-TC0-499384","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780553499384-HD.jpg?v=1786803231","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/families-families-families","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}