All Kinds of: Families

Families

Author: Anita Ganeri Series: All Kinds of

A friendly and inclusive look at how we live our lives, celebrating our differences and similarities

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A friendly and inclusive look at how we live our lives, celebrating our differences and similarities

Description

This non-fiction picture book celebrates the rich variety of families that exist in the world, and is illustrated throughout with beautiful artwork. It covers all kinds of families, including families who live together and apart, blended families, extended families, adopted families and foster families and looks at how families change and what makes a family. The book includes notes for teachers and parents on helping children to develop self esteem and empathy by understanding how people differ and how they are the same.

The All Kinds Of series is aimed at children aged 5 and up and offers a friendly and inclusive look at how we live our lives, celebrating our differences as well as what we have in common. Titles in the four-book series are: All Kinds Of Beliefs, All Kinds Of Bodies, All Kinds Of Families and All Kinds Of Feelings.

About the Author

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. She specialises in the natural world, religion and mythology but is always looking for new challenges. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat. She enjoys reading, walking the Moors, playing tennis and dreaming of winning Wimbledon.

More on this Book

There are all kinds of families. Families can be big or small and they can change over time. Some families live together and others live apart. They can have one or two or no mums or dads. In every family there are people who love each other. Who's in your family? This non-fiction picture book celebrates the rich variety of families that exist in the world, and is illustrated throughout with beautiful artwork.