Our World - Families

Celebrates the love that members of many different types of families have for each other.

In this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten, we realize that families can be many things.

A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.

Illustrations and gently rhyming text follow two mothers and their toddler on a sunny day.

A young girl who lives with her grandparents experiences warmth, love, and closeness, even when she wonders why her parents are not raising her.

Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.

Stella brings her two fathers to school to celebrate Mother's Day.

When Ellie is very small, she finds a tiny dragon just hatched from its egg. Ellie calls him Scratch, takes him home, and moves him into her dollhouse. Her mother can't see Scratch, and her teacher doesn't notice when Ellie takes Scratch to preschool, but her friends are amazed. But dragons get quite large as they grow. And Ellie is growing, too, moving from dollhouses to dance parties with friends, not noticing as Scratch's form begins to fade a...

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

A child describes how she lives sometimes with her mother and sometimes with her father, but her dog is her constant companion.