Category: Family Diversity | Reading Level: 4–8
If you love each other, then you're a family... Do you have two dads? Or one step mum? Or what about the world's biggest grandpa? Discover a whole host of silly animal families in this hilarious celebration of the love found in families big and small. Max Lang's award-winning art style and Suzanne Lan ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
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 t ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
Paula will soon have a little brother. Martina wonders why she only has a mom, and John remembers when he was adopted. Families are like people: No two are alike! Some kids live with their mom and dad, some kids live with two moms or two dads or just one parent. Lots of kids are adopted. Some kids know ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
All families come in different shapes and sizes, but they are all special when they love and respect each other. These rhyming stories are a celebration of the diversity of families and encourage inclusion and acceptance in a child's relationships. By promoting diversity and understanding in family lif ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity | Series: Classic Board Books
The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family is now available in a sturdy board book edition. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
We are all different. But together we colour our world amazing. Using the rainbow as a metaphor for our diversity and uniqueness, Indigenous author Ezekiel Kwaymullina joins forces with award-winning illustrator Moira Court in this gorgeous new picture book. Luminous screen prints and evocative prose ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity | Reading Level: Children's - Babies, Age 0-2
With an irresistible rhyme and delightfully endearing illustrations, this board book is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and doing all the wonderful things babies do best. Full color.
Category: Family Diversity
Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children--piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club--this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good parenti ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
It's love that makes a family When a boy confides in his friend about bullies saying he doesn't have a real family, he discovers that his friend's parents--a mom and a dad--and his two dads are actually very much alike. Dr. Michael Genhart's debut story is the perfect resource to gently discuss discri ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
This fun, inclusive board book celebrates the one thing that makes every family a family . . . and that's LOVE. Love is baking a special cake. Love is lending a helping hand. Love is reading one more book. In this exuberant board book, many different families are shown in happy activity, from an early- ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
A funny, heartfelt picture-book: perfect for introducing children to the different kinds of family there are in the world today, and celebrating story time together. Set off on a series of incredible adventures with an adorable family as the stories they read burst into colourful life. Battle dragons, ...Show more
Category: Family Diversity
An adorable board book for the babies and toddlers of gay fathers, featuring a variety of diverse, loving families with two dads. Families with same-sex parents are celebrated in this board book that follows busy dads and their kids throughout their day—eating breakfast, getting dressed, heading ...Show more
