Families, families, families! / by Suzanne Lang & Max Lang.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780553499384
- ISBN: 0553499386
- ISBN: 9781338719727
- ISBN: 1338719726
- Physical Description: color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Random House Childrens Books, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | AD480L Lexile Decoding demand: 57 (medium) Semantic demand: 65 (high) Syntactic demand: 60 (medium) Structure demand: 45 (medium) Lexile |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Families > Juvenile fiction. Animals > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Stories in rhyme. Picture books. |
Available copies
- 21 of 21 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 3 of 3 copies available at Scenic Regional. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 21 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Scenic Regional-Sullivan | E LAN (Text) | 3005177521 | Easy Book | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Union | E LAN (Text) | 300517753+ | Easy Book | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Warrenton | E LAN (Text) | 3005177505 | Easy Book | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Stoutland | E LANG (Text) | 31320003708521 | Easy Books | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | LA (Text) | 33042004334440 | Juvenile Picture Books | Available | - |
Carthage Public Library | P Lang, Suzanne (Text) | 34MO2001791148 | Primary Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | E LANG (Text) | 30061030139469 | Easy Books | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | E Lang (Text) | 3803366364 | Picture Books | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Huntsville | E LANG (Text) | 2004204257 | Children's Area | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | E LANG (Text) | 2004204249 | Children's Area | Available | - |
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School Library Journal Review
Families, Families, Families!
School Library Journal
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PreS-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 (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
New York Times Review
Families, Families, Families!
New York Times
July 12, 2015
Copyright (c) The New York Times Company
"One" can mean any number of numbers, as in one bunch of bananas (five) or one box of crayons (eight) - and, in this nimble counting book, one clan of any size. Gómez's adorable digital illustrations of friendly, bobble-headed people in moments of homey togetherness include multiracial families and two men holding hands. It's a clever way to show the variety between and within families, and Shannon concludes with an apt reminder: We're all part of "one earth. One world. One family." FAMILIES, FAMILIES, FAMILIES! By Suzanne Lang. Illustrated by Max Lang. 32 pp. Random House. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 2 to 6.) This book assembles and celebrates just about every possible permutation of adults and the children they're raising, using colorful, goofily drawn animals as proxies. Each page is framed like a portrait: Some children "have two dads. Some have one mom." Some are adopted, or live with cousins or stepsisters and -brothers. There are parents who are married and not. "If you love each other, then you are a family," the final pages say. By then the case has been made with wit and verve. HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES By Lesléa Newman. Illustrated by Laura Cornell. 29 pp. Candlewick. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8.) It's hard to fathom now the scorn and fear this mild-mannered tale of a girl and her two moms occasioned when it was published in 1989. With attractive new art by Cornell, life in their "little house with a big apple tree in the front yard" looks pretty idyllic, and the first day of school is fun, too, until a boy asks Heather what her father does. She wonders if she's the only one with no dad. But the teacher has all the kids draw their families, and - news flash! - it turns out none are exactly alike. STELLA BRINGS THE FAMILY By Miriam B. Schiffer. Illustrated by Molly Clifton-Brown. 36 pp. Chronicle. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8.) Meet Stella, a delightful red-haired preschooler who's the Heather of the two-dad set. Recalling the predicament of her once embattled predecessor, she's flummoxed when her class is told to invite a "special guest" for Mother's Day. "Everyone else had a mother," she worries. "Howie had two!" (The times, they are a-changing.) If it's odd that the teacher didn't foresee her discomfort, Stella's solution - to bring every single member of her extended family - makes for a raucous happy ending. MY FAMILY TREE AND ME Written and illustrated by Dusan Petricic. 24 pp. Kids Can Press. $16.95. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8.) A picture book that invites you to read front to back or vice versa is the perfect format for Petricic's beguiling look at his globe-spanning family tree. No nationalities are specified, but his father's kin have an Old World aura, while his mother's ancestors seem Chinese. All are drawn with live-wire lines and witty, humanizing details - charmingly toothy smiles or protruding ears. Both sides lead to the showstopping centerpiece: the extended clan in a group portrait, with a neighbor kid photo-bombing. ONLINE An expanded visual presentation of this week's column at nytimes.com/books.
The Horn Book Review
Families, Families, Families!
The Horn Book
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Some children live with their grandparents / and some live with an aunt. / Some children have many pets... / ...and some just have a plant!" Todd Parr's The Family Book mined the same all-family-configurations-deserve-respect territory, but the Langs go with rhymes and an all-animal cast. The art is multifaceted, featuring framed family photos with both illustrated and photographic elements. (c) Copyright 2015. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.