In the story Who's In My Family there are many different families represented. Different family configurations and living situations shown throughout the book. The story is respectful in the way it is told, and helps children see that there are many diverse family styles. The story teaches through conversational text and descriptive.

Informs on the different types of families, some have two mommy's or two daddy's some have one mommy and a daddy and some have only one parent. Also, it goes into being an only child, or having siblings, and even being twins or triplets.
Age: 3 - 7
Source: Pierce County Library ( )

This book would be good for a shared reading with kindergarten or first grade students. The book discusses the many different types of families there are-including animal families. The book also talks about activities families like to do together, how families care for one another, and how people in families may look alike or they may not. The text also brings up the concept of twins, which is interesting to look for in a text. A great text feature about the book is that it has regularly narrated text, but it also has speech bubbles that appear above different characters. The speech bubbles show characters talking in first person point of view, while the narration is done in third person point of view. This book would be great for introducing the concept of different points of views and which words to look out for when differentiating the two.

This book is about the diverse kinds of families, and who they are in the family.

This is a great book that talks about children and their families while comparing it to the zoo! a family gets ready to go to the zoo and talks about how their days normally go compared to other families like if they wake up late or early or what they eat for breakfast, what they do for fun and more. It is great for building on what we already know about our own families and learning about others. I love this for an all about me unit or even one on community in general.