Always Your Stepdad
Stephanie Stansbie and Tatiana Kamshilina
Whatever you do, wherever you go, whoever you become – I’ll always be your stepdad. This lyrical love letter of a book explores the unique challenges, joys and experiences of becoming a blended family.
We Need to Talk About Divorce
Kate Scharff and Annika L.E Large
Here is a kid-centric guide for the children of parents going through a divorce or separation, written by internationally renowned divorce therapist Kate Scharff. There are no two ways about it: break-ups are horrible. No matter how well-intentioned parents can be during a divorce or separation process, inevitably the kids end up getting hurt. Featuring illustrations by Annika Le Large, this approachable book deals with concerns kids might have, from living in two homes to getting caught in the middle of arguments and feeling forced to choose a side. A central theme of the book is enabling kids to feel heard during the process.
A Kid’s Book About Divorce
Ashley Simpo
When divorce happens, it happens to everyone in the family and kids are left with a lot of questions. This is a tough conversation to have, and some of the answers can hurt. This book is meant to help start an honest discussion with kids about what to expect when parents go their separate ways – written by a parent who has been there.
A Kids Book About Blended Families
Lluvia Arras
What is a blended family? Are they different from your family, or the same? What’s it like to be a part of one? Do you get to eat lots of ice cream if you’re in one? Find out from an author raising her own blended and beautiful family! This book aims to expand our ideas of what a family can be because any family rooted in love is a family.
Changing Tides
Julia Moscardo
When Theo and his mother, Simone, become part of Lula’s family, she isn’t sure what to expect. As they all spend a holiday at the seaside, the new siblings learn to work together to create a beautiful sandcastle. But once disaster strikes, will their relationship weather the storm?
Rory’s Room of Rectangles
Ian Eagleton
Rory loves his dad, but he also really likes his step-dad, Tony. He has weekends with Dad in the park and makes imaginary dens with Tony, so when Father’s Day comes, who should he make his card for at school? Spotting his frustration, Tony spends his ‘rainy-day pennies’ to take Rory somewhere new – an art gallery, full of wonders. As they pause to reflect in a huge room of rectangles, Rory sees his conflicting feelings glistening back at him in many powerful colours. Afterwards, a ‘chance’ encounter with Dad, under a red sky, helps Rory realise that he doesn’t have to feel torn at all.
Do You Remember?
Sydney Smith
Tucked up in bed at their new flat, a boy and his mum share memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all of those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favourite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.
Two Families to Call My Own
Phil Earle and Jess Rose
Florrie lives in two different houses: One with her mum. One with her dad. Now that Florrie is getting used to having two homes, everything feels just right. But, what happens when Florrie’s dad makes a new girl friend – who’s not her mum?
Roots of Love: Families Change, Love Remains
Sara Asuquo and Ruthine Burton
Tia has had the best day ever, until her parents tell her that they are separating. To top it off, she has to present a project at school all about her family. With the help of her school friends, can Tia learn that there are many different types of family, and that each one can be full of love and happiness?
One Day At a Time
Rachel Ip and Natelle Quek
When Poppy and Robin’s parents separate, everything starts to change around them. They soon have two homes, different routines and big mixed up feelings. But as family life begins to take new shape, the siblings discover that even the biggest changes in life get easier, and happiness can grow again, if you take it one day at a time.
My Family, Your Family
Laura Henry-Allain and Giovana Medeiros
There is no one way to have a family and no right way to be a family. ‘My Family, Your Family’ is a powerful non-fiction book that focuses on what makes a family, explores how different families come together and celebrates the idea that every family is unique.
What Makes a Family?
Molly Potter and Sarah Jennings
‘What Makes a Family?’ explores different types of families, from what makes them unique to what they all have in common. Using everyday examples, clear explanations and colourful illustrations by Sarah Jennings, this book encourages children to celebrate families of all shapes and sizes. This diverse picture book covers lots of different family structures, including nuclear families, blended families, LGBTQ+ families, single-parent families, fostering and adoption. It’s the perfect resource for starting important conversations with children about what different families can look like, and the love that holds them all together.
We’re Moving! A Reassuring Book About New Beginnings
Adam Guillain, Zeynep Ozatalay and Charlotte Guillain
Follow nine families around the world as they pack up and move home in this reassuring picture book. It allows young children to understand the complicated and sometimes difficult feelings that can come with a big move.
Two Places to Call Home
Phil Earle and Jess Rose
Florrie has two of everything. Two lovely brothers. Two smashing parents. Two very cuddled pets. But two isn’t always a magic number, as Florrie now has to live in TWO different houses: one with her mum and one with her dad. An uplifting picture book that helps young readers discuss their feelings around divorce and embrace change.
Two Nests
Laurence Anholt and James Coplestone
This is a gentle story about family separation with a happy ending. Betty and Paul are two little birds who build a nest. Betty lays an egg and out pops Baby Bird. But the nest is small, Betty and Paul squabble, and they decide that Paul should live in a different nest. But Betty and Paul both love Baby Bird, and soon he is able to fly over the cherry tree, visiting his two nests. ‘You had a home, now you have two, four little words, dear, we BOTH love you.’
The Great Big Book of Families
Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith
What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too. Mary Hoffman takes a look through children’s eyes at the wide varieties of family life, from homes, food and schools to holidays, jobs and housework.
Stuck in the Middle
Tom Tinn-Disbury
Tilly lives in the mountains with her mummy and daddy. She loves it – there are beautiful views and lots of space to play. The only downside is that she lives some of the time with Mummy on one mountain and the rest of the time with Daddy on another. Even though their mountains are joined by a bridge, Tilly isn’t allowed to use it.
Remixed: A Blended Family
Arree Chung
An inspiring, uplifting story ‘Remixed’ celebrates the strength of remixed families and the beauty of chosen families, while reassuring young children that while change is scary, everything usually turns out just as ok as it was before, and sometimes even better.
Split Survival Kit: 10 Steps for Coping with Your Parents’ Separation
Ruth Fitzgerald and Angharad Rudkin
Finding out that your parents are splitting up can feel scary and upsetting. It can also be hard to know who you can talk to about it. But you are NOT alone. Psychologist Angharad Rudkin is here to guide you on this journey with 10 simple steps that will help you to feel calmer, stronger, confident and more positive about the future.
My Friends and Me
Stephanie Stansbie and Katie Halford
This funny, heart-warming picture book celebrates different kinds of families and the bond between adult and child. Whether your little one has two mums or one, two dads or none, the only thing that matters is the love you share.
My Magic Family
Lotte Jeffs and Sharon Davey
There are billions of families, a million ways to be. But in my magic family it’s Mummy, Mum and me! Let’s tell our family stories – fantastical and true – and we’ll find out who’s who to me, and who is who to you. In this celebratory, reassuring rhyming story a little girl with two mummies shares the magic of her family and discovers how magic all her friends’ families are too.
My Family’s Changing
Pat Thomas and Lesley Harker
Using beautiful but realistic artwork, Pat Thomas and Lesley Harker take the extremely sensitive and often painful subject of divorce and explain the facts, gently but seriously, for the very youngest of readers.
My Daddy is a Silly Monkey
Dianne Hofmeyr and Carol Thompson
This charming picture book for younger children portrays a day in the life of a dad and daughter in a single-parent home, as they get up, have breakfast, go to school, go swimming, make dinner and prepare for bedtime. Dad is a great big bear, a silly monkey, a crocodile, an octopus and, at bedtime, a scary monster for a little while – but in the end it’s Daddy being Daddy that the little girl loves best.
My Big Fantastic Family
Adam Guillain and Ali Pye
When Dad says that he’s moving out, Lily-May feels all upside-down inside. But now Dad comes on Sundays, and they ride their bikes really fast and make secret dens together. Lily-May plays more just with Mum now, too – and when Mum’s new partner Peter comes over, they play pirate ships! Sometimes, there are tricky moments – Lily-May hates it when Mum has to work late – but a birthday party with Lily-May’s big fantastic family helps her realise just how many people love her.
Mum and Dad Glue
Kes Gray and Lee Wildish
This picture book looks at divorce from a child’s eye view. A little boy tries to find a pot of parent glue to stick his mum and dad back together. His parents have come undone and he wants to mend their marriage, stick their smiles back on and make them better. Even though his parents may be broken, their love for him is not.
Everything Changes
Clare Helen Welsh and Asa Gilland
Playing together as a family on the beach, it seems the happy, warm days of summer will never end. But then Mum and Dad say they can no longer live together, and everything changes.
Dealing With My Parents’ Divorce
Jane Lacey and Venetia Dean
Sometimes you can sort out a problem on your own. But sometimes you need to ask for help. This book helps young children to make this decision and find out about and understand what’s happening when their parents divorce or separate. Case studies combine with sensible, practical advice to help children aged 6+ find out what to do in difficult situations.
All Kinds of Families
Sophy Henn
Just like us, animal families are all different. For orang-utans, mummy looks after the babies, for emus it is all down to daddy. Clownfish live with a mummy and daddy, some albatross families live with two mummies and some cheetahs are adopted by two daddies. For some families it is the grandparents, or even a huge family group, who help bring up the youngsters. But what’s the one thing that they have in common? Love, of course!
All About Families
Felicity Brooks
What do families look like? Who’s in your family? And how can families change? With delightful illustrations, this glorious celebration of family diversity talks about lone-parent families, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, and mixed race families, and lots, lots more, showing little children that families come in all shapes and sizes.
Luna Loves Library Day
Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers
Luna loves library day: that’s the day she spends with her dad. Exploring the shelves they find magic, mystery and even start to mend their own history. This is an inspiring story from one of the UK’s greatest up-and-coming poets for children, captured in all its flights of fancy by illustrator Fiona Lumbers.
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