A Family Is a Family Is a Family
$49.39
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2017
Summary
When a teacher asks her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different, but the same in one important way.
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways — but the same in the one way that matters most of all.
One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families sp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781554987948 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1554987946 |
| Author: | Sara O'Leary, Qin Leng |
| Publisher: | Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada |
| Imprint: | Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 439g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 215mm x 241mm |
| Series: | Who We Are |
| Audience Age: | 4 |
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Critics Review
“The broad diversity of family constellations is refreshing … A-plus fabulous.” — Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
“Leng’s drawings of domestic life are, like O’Leary’s writing, winsome but never sentimental. Together they offer a straightforward, optimistic view of everyday modern life.” — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
“A sweet and tender tale that shows that families are composed of love regardless of how they may be configured.” — School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
“[R]aucous and relatable.” — LitHub
Sara O'Leary
Sara O’Leary is a writer of fiction for both adults and children. She is the author of the award-winning series of Henry books — When You Were Small, Where You Came From, and When I Was Small — and This is Sadie, all illustrated by Julie Morstad, and You Are One, illustrated by Karen Klassen. A graduate of the UBC Creative Writing Program, she has taught screenwriting and writing for children at Concordia University in Montreal.
Qin Leng lives and works as a designer and illustrator in Toronto. She has published numerous picture books in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Sweden, Hong Kong and South Korea. She has also illustrated for Save the Children and UNICEF.
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