Pearl and Her Bunch
Momoko Abe
When little Pearl makes the startling discovery that she’s not a grape like the rest of the bunch, she begins to question EVERYTHING! Can they really be her family if she doesn’t look like them? An adventure around the house might just help her find the answer she’s looking for.
My Bright Shining Star
Fatima Whitbread and Rhian Wright
The powerful story of a young girl growing up in care and searching for her forever family, based on the childhood of author and Olympic-medal-winner Fatima Whitbread.
Join Little Fatima on a journey to find her forever home, even though it is not as easy as she had hoped. But through this journey, a bright shining star is always there to guide Fatima.
A Kids Book About Foster Families
Sometimes, when grown ups aren’t able to care for their kids, foster families can help. This means a lot of changes, and can be scary. The cool thing is that foster families are committed to providing kids with safety and security during times of transition. No matter your experience, you aren’t alone.
A Kids Book About Adoption
Nabil Zerizef and Leul Gurske
This volume opens the door for anyone to start a conversation about adoption, told through the eyes of a kid who has been adopted as well as a grownup who’s adopted a kid. It breaks down some of the complexities of adoption and dives into what makes each story so unique and special.
A Kids Book About Being in Foster Care
Heather Ann Brauer
What do you know about being in foster care? Whatever comes to mind, let’s put that aside for now. This awesome author wrote this book about his experience in foster care – which is unique to him. We hope you’ll share his openness, curiosity, and desire to learn more about the system and what it’s like for the people in it. Let’s dive in!
পরিবার কী তৈরি করে?
মলি পটার এবং সারা জেনিংস
'পরিবার কী তৈরি করে?' বিভিন্ন ধরণের পরিবারকে অন্বেষণ করে, কী কী তাদের অনন্য করে তোলে থেকে শুরু করে তাদের সকলের মধ্যে কী মিল রয়েছে। সারাহ জেনিংসের দৈনন্দিন উদাহরণ, স্পষ্ট ব্যাখ্যা এবং রঙিন চিত্র ব্যবহার করে, এই বইটি শিশুদের সকল আকার এবং আকারের পরিবার উদযাপন করতে উৎসাহিত করে। এই বৈচিত্র্যময় ছবির বইটিতে অনেকগুলি বিভিন্ন পারিবারিক কাঠামো রয়েছে, যার মধ্যে রয়েছে একক পরিবার, মিশ্র পরিবার, LGBTQ+ পরিবার, একক-পিতামাতার পরিবার, লালন-পালন এবং দত্তক। বিভিন্ন পরিবার কেমন হতে পারে এবং তাদের সকলকে একসাথে ধরে রাখে এমন ভালোবাসা সম্পর্কে শিশুদের সাথে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ কথোপকথন শুরু করার জন্য এটি একটি নিখুঁত উৎস।
Blanket Bears
Samuel Langley-Swain and Ashlee Spink
Written by an adoptive dad, ‘The Blanket Bears’ sensitively and accurately outlines the adoption process from a child’s perspective, helping young children to understand the concept of adoption.
Wolfie the Bunny
Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora
The Bunny family has adpoted a wolf son, and daughter Dot is the only one who realises Wolfie is going to eat them all up! Dot trieds to get through to her parents, but they are too smitten to listen. A new brother takes getting used to and when (in a twist of fate) it’s Wolfie who’s threatened, will his big sister Dot save the day?
My Family, Your Family!
লরা হেনরি-অ্যালেন এবং জিওভানা মেডিইরোস
পরিবার থাকার কোনও একক উপায় নেই এবং পরিবার হওয়ার কোনও সঠিক উপায় নেই। 'আমার পরিবার, তোমার পরিবার' একটি শক্তিশালী নন-ফিকশন বই যা একটি পরিবার কী তৈরি করে তার উপর আলোকপাত করে, বিভিন্ন পরিবার কীভাবে একত্রিত হয় তা অন্বেষণ করে এবং প্রতিটি পরিবার অনন্য এই ধারণাটি উদযাপন করে।
When You Joined Our Family
Harriet Evans and Nia Tudor
A gentle exploration of the adoption experience, from first meetings to creating new family traditions.
My Daddies!
Gareth Peter and Garry Parsons
Set off on a series of incredible adventures with an adorable family as the stories they read burst into fantastical life. Battle dragons, dodge dinosaurs, zoom to the moon and explore the world in a hot-air balloon, before winding down in a wonderfully cosy bedtime ending. This is both a funny, heartfelt celebration of stories and a brilliant way to show all children different kinds of family.
The Pirate Mums
Jodie Lancet-Grant and Lydia Corry
Billy’s family is not what you’d call ordinary. His mums won’t listen to NORMAL music. They love to sing sea shanties and dance jigs in the lounge. Their clothes are highly unusual, they have a rude parrot for a pet, and their taste in house design is, well FISHY. Billy wishes his family could be more like everyone else’s. Until a swashbuckling adventure changes everything!
My Mums Love Me
Anna Membrino and Joy Huwang Ruiz
This lyrical and heartfelt picture book is a gorgeous celebration of same-sex parents and motherhood. I love my mums and they love me together we are a family! This beautifully-told story about a same-sex family of two mums and their baby is a love letter to close-knit families everywhere.
The Most Precious Present in the World
Becky Edwards and Louise Comfort
Taking the form of a dialogue between a little girl called Mia and her adoptive mother, this book explores questions that might preoccupy an adopted child. Mia wants to know why she looks different to her adoptive parents and why her birth parents didn’t want to keep her.
Heather Has Two Mummies
Leslea Newman
Heather’s favourite number is two – she has two arms, two legs, two pets and two lovely mummies. But when Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her about her daddy – and Heather doesn’t have a daddy! But then the class all draw portraits of their families, and not one single drawing is the same. Heather and her classmates realise – it doesn’t matter who makes up a family, the most important thing is that all the people in it love one another very much.
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Jacqueline Wilson
Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children’s Home but would like a real home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy’s own words.
Daddy, Papa and Me
Leslea Newman and Carol Thompson
Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its daddies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there’s no limit to what a loving family can do together.
And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Roy and Silo are just like the other penguin couples at the zoo – they bow to each other, walk together and swim together. But Roy and Silo are a little bit different – they’re both boys. Then, one day, when Mr Gramzay the zookeeper finds them trying to hatch a stone, he realises that it may be time for Roy and Silo to become parents for real.
Based on a true story, this charming and heart-warming tale proves that all you need to make a family is love.
Love Makes a Family
Sophie Beern
Whether you have two mums, two dads, one parent or one of each, there’s one thing that makes a family a family… and that’s love. Celebrate the variety of families, and the common theme of love, in this illustrated board book for young readers.
Mama and Mummy and Me in the Middle
Nina Lacour and Kaylani Juanita
For one little girl, there’s no place she’d rather be than sitting between Mama and Mummy. So when Mummy goes away on a work trip, it’s tricky to find a good place at the table. As the days go by, Mama brings her to the library, they watch films, and all of them talk on the phone, but she still misses Mummy. As they pass by a beautiful garden, the girl has an idea. When Mummy finally comes home, it takes a minute to shake off the empty feeling she felt all week before leaning in for a kiss.
The Child of Dreams
Irena Brignull and Richard Jones
A little girl wants to know where she came from and why she doesn’t have a father. When her mother cannot tell her, the girl decides to find out for herself. Her journey starts with a question to the stork who nests on the roof of her home, and leads her on a quest through the woods, tracing her own story back to its source with the help of the animals she meets, until she discovers what truly matters in making a family.
This is My Family
প্যাট থমাস এবং লেসলি হার্কার
This work introduces children to families that have parents of the same sex. Whether a family has a mum and a dad, or two mums or two dads, this book shows that all parents love, care, and support their children in the same way.
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