Tool's Title
A Family Is a Family Is a Family [➦]

Languages
✎ English
✎ French

Target Audience
• Children aged 3 to 6
• People in parental/family roles
• Health, social services and education professionals

Type
• Educational book

Duration
N/A

Conception by
Sara O’Leary (award-winning author), Qin Leng (illustrator)

Release Date and Last Update
2016 (no update as of the review date)

Description
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 special. One is raised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. One has many stepsiblings, and another has a new baby in the family.
As her classmates describe who they live with and who loves them — family of every shape, size and every kind of relation — the child realizes that as long as her family is full of caring people, it is special.
A warm and whimsical look at many types of families, written by award-winning author Sara O’Leary, with quirky and sweet illustrations by Qin Leng.

*** Note that this description was written by Groundwood Books Ltd ***

Official Reference
Thom, Kai Cheng. (2016). A Family Is a Family Is a Family. Groundwood Books Ltd.

To Access the Tool
Hard copies of this book are available at the Grande Bibliothèque (BAnQ).

You can also buy the book in bookstores at a cost of $18.95.