One Family
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A celebration of diverse families plus a clever 1-10 counting element in this unabridged board book edition of One Family.
Just how many things can "one" be?
One box of crayons.
One batch of cookies.
One world.
One family.
From veteran picture book author George Shannon and artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shannon's (Hands Say Love) message is clear: no matter how many people there are in a family, what color they are, or what ages they are, they're still a family. An Asian mother and child romp on hobby horses before bedtime: "One is two./ One pair of shoes. One team of horses./ One family." Gomez's (Besos for Baby) combinations of families from one to 10 present lots of possibilities grandparents and children, fathers in turbans, single-parent families, families whose members don't look alike at all. Linking them to ways of counting groups of familiar things ("One is five./ One bunch of bananas. One hand of cards./ One family"), Shannon's blank verse brings home the idea of unity in multiplicity. Gomez's figures have a pleasing, doll-like look, with round heads whose features convey friendliness. Her scenes of city life are imbued with warmth, comfort, and a kind of universality there's little obvious luxury or poverty. It's a quiet vision of a world in which every family is accepted. Ages 4 8.
