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Bezig met laden... Heather Has Two Mommies (1989)door Lesléa Newman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Heather gets questioned about who her dad is. Heather has two moms and she loves having two of them. She explains her experience with two moms. When it came to drawing pictures of their classmates' families, Heather found that each drawing was different. Each family was unique and Heather felt good about it. I loved this story so much. It talked about a little girl named Heather who has two moms, and addresses the situation in which she realizes that her family does not look like others in her class. However, the lesson of the story is that each family is special and important due to the love each family member has for each other. I think this story is really important to introduce to a younger audience as it teaches understanding from an early age. Heather lives happily with her two moms, Mama Kate and Mama June, and their two pets, Gingersnap and Midnight. However, when Heather begins school, she starts to wonder if she is the only kid without a dad. The teacher notices and decides to ask the class to all draw pictures of their families. The book shows each student's picture, detailing the people in their drawings; some have two moms, some have two dads, some have step-parents, some have grandparents instead of what Heather thought a "normal" family was (one mom and one dad). This is so important for kids to become familiar with! There is no "normal" family, and the teacher's quote that the only thing that matters in a family is that "all the people in it love each other" put that concept into words perfectly. I loved the message of this book and how explicit the theme was. One of the first "two mama" books. Dedicated mostly to setting up that the little girl has an ordinary life with two mamas. Pretty good for that sort of explicit "here is a type of family" narrative. Useful if paired with books that similarly address different kinds of families in an explicit fashion, but this should not be the only two-mama or two-papa book in a library or family collection. If you have this one, consider getting "The Different Dragon" or "The Dragon and the Doctor" to show a two-mama family where the same-gender aspect is backgrounded, not foregrounded.
Beyond the addition of color, the new Heather has been otherwise altered or, I should say, expurgated. Eight crucial pages are missing—a cut that goes back, in fact, to the book’s tenth anniversary edition. Disappointingly, these pages have not been re-instated—but they are the very core of the narrative, emotionally, aesthetically, and politically. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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