A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O'leary

A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O'leary

When a teacher asks her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different, but the same in one important way ...

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 has many stepsiblings, and another has a new baby in the family.

As 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, it is special.

A warm and whimsical look at many types of families, written by award-winning author Sara O'Leary, with quirky and sweet illustrations by Qin Leng.

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.9
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

SARA O'LEARY is a fiction writer who works with both adults and children. When You Were Little, Where You Came From, and When I Was Small, all illustrated by Julie Morstad, are among her award-winning Henry books. She studied screenwriting and children's writing at Concordia University in Montreal after graduating from the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Department. Sara was named after Sara's grandmother, who had always been known as Sadie. She is overjoyed at the prospect of having a child named after her.

@saraoleary is her Twitter handle. Cat Knit, Tiny Bird's Bad Word, and Scaredy Kate are just a few of JACOB GRANT's hilarious and heartbreaking picture books. He's virtually always at his home studio, drawing, painting, and writing until he comes up with something that feels like a story. In the windy state of Illinois, he lives with his wife and son.

Further information is available at jacobgrantbooks.com.