num_pages: 32
description: When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special the answers are all different in many ways  but the same in the one way that matters most of all.One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One is raised by a grandmother and another has two dads. One is full of stepsiblings and another has a new baby.As one by one her classmates describe who they live with and who loves them  family of every shape size and every kind of relation  the child realizes that as long as her family is full of caring people her family is special.A warm and whimsical look at many types of families written by award-winning author Sara OLeary A Family is a Family is a Family springs to life with quirky and sweet illustrations by Qin Leng.
language: English
title: A Family Is a Family Is a Family
publisher: Groundwood Books