{"product_id":"9780553499384","title":"Families, Families, Families!","description":"No matter your size, shape, or pedigree--if you love each other, you are a family!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Suzanne Lang","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Picture book","offer_id":39456528433214,"sku":"9780553499384","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0112\/1065\/3760\/files\/BNCImageAPI_00617b1d-024d-4d09-b1bd-2b4a3e6d5038.jpg?v=1732321221","url":"https:\/\/onceuponabookstore.ca\/products\/9780553499384","provider":"Once Upon a Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}