We Are Family

We Are Family

By Author / Illustrator

Ryan Wheatcroft, Patricia Hegarty

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

5+

Publisher

Little Tiger Press Group

ISBN

9781848575516

Format

Hardback

Published

09-02-2017

Synopsis

All families are different - and yet in many ways the same!


This book uses a gentle rhyming text to follow eight different families, celebrating their everyday differences as well as the similarities they share.

Reviews

Marie

We are family is an excellent and beautifully presented resource to use with children. In its first instance it is a simple poetry book that tells us all about families and how they help and the challenges there can be. But it's the is use of the illustrations that are very powerful. So often in books stores etc... one family dynamic is shown but in this book there are many different ones and all on one page - 2.4 children, mixed race, single parent, same sex, disability, and more. It is these illustrations that enable this book to be used so well as a resource in schools with children. I teach in a school where there is every family dynamic you can think of, and we recently took part in a Mother's Day project. This can be a sensitive issue for children where the 'usual' mum figure isn't there. So we used this book as our way in to looking at Mother's Day as a time to celebrate and say thank you to all those who look after us, mums, mans, aunts, grannies, dads etc... The book created lots of talking points across the school and children were engaged talking about their different families. As a school we celebrate these difference and this book wonderfully shows these as what families can and should look like. I've given this book to our learning mentor team to use in the furture- it will be so useful when working on emotional issues linked to families. Picture Book / Ages 5+ / Reviewed by Marie Berry, teacher.

Suggested Reading Age 5+

 

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