O que constitui uma família?
Molly Potter e Sarah Jennings
"O Que Faz uma Família?" explora diferentes tipos de família, desde o que as torna únicas até o que todas têm em comum. Usando exemplos do cotidiano, explicações claras e ilustrações coloridas de Sarah Jennings, este livro incentiva as crianças a celebrar famílias de todos os formatos e tamanhos. Este livro ilustrado e diversificado aborda diversas estruturas familiares, incluindo famílias nucleares, famílias mistas, famílias LGBTQ+, famílias monoparentais, acolhimento familiar e adoção. É o recurso perfeito para iniciar conversas importantes com as crianças sobre como diferentes famílias podem ser e o amor que as mantém unidas.
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!
Laura Henry-Allain e Giovana Medeiros
Não existe uma maneira única de ter uma família e nem uma maneira certa de ser uma família. "Minha Família, Sua Família" é um livro de não ficção poderoso que foca no que constitui uma família, explora como diferentes famílias se unem e celebra a ideia de que cada família é única.
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!
Welcome to the Family
Mary Hoffman e Ros Asquith
This book takes one element of ‘The Great Big Book of Families’, the arrival of new members into a family, and explores all the different ways a baby or child can become part of a family. The book includes natural birth within a nuclear family, adoption, fostering, same sex families and many other aspects of bringing babies or children into a family.
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.
Who’s Your Real Mum?
Bernadette Green and Anna Zobel
When Nicholas wants to know which of Elvi’s two mums is her real mum, she gives him lots of clues. Her real mum is a circus performer and a pirate – and she even teaches spiders the art of web! Despite that, Nicholas still can’t work out who Elvi’s mum really is. Luckily, Elvi knows just how to explain it to her friend.
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.
A Safe Place for Rufus
Jill Seeney and Rachel Fuller
Rufus the cat lives with a family who looks after him, feeds him and gives him lots of cuddles. He feels happy and safe, especially when he is lying on his favourite cushion. But he didn’t always feel this way. The family that Rufus used to live with were not kind to him at all and he struggles to escape from his bad memories.
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
Pat Thomas e Lesley Harker
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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