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All About Families

By Felicity Brooks
Series: All About
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All About Families by Felicity Brooks is a delightful children's book exploring the diversity and dynamics of families around the world. It introduces young readers to various family structures, roles, and traditions, celebrating the uniqueness of every family. The book is educational and engaging, featuring vibrant illustrations and simple text that convey the message that love and connection are at the heart of all families.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to introduce children to the diverse nature of families around the world. With its engaging illustrations and simple text, it provides a delightful exploration of how families can be unique in composition and lifestyle, making it perfect for young readers curious about their own family dynamics and those of others.

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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.

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What do families look like? Who's in your family? And how can families change?

With delightful illustrations, this glorious celebration of family diversity, All About Families, talks about lone-parent families, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, and mixed race families, and lots, lots more. It shows little children that families come in all shapes and sizes.

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  • All About Families
    What do families look like? Who's in your family? And how can families change? With delightful illustrations, this glorious celebration of family diversity, All About Families, talks about lone-parent families, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, and mixed race families, and lots, lots more. It shows little children that families come in all shapes and sizes.
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All About Families by Felicity Brooks is praised for its vibrant celebration of diversity and familial differences. It is described as an ultimate guide that highlights various family structures, cultural backgrounds, languages, homes, and celebrations worldwide, presenting family life as both rewarding and diverse.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474949071

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 June 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Mar Ferrero

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 246.0mm

Height: 296.0mm

Weight: 520g

Pages: 32

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About the Author

Felicity has worked for Usborne for over 30 years and has written and edited hundreds of titles, from books on tractors to genetics, from Shakespeare to mental health, and plenty of sparkly unicorns. Felicity is an expert in making tricky topics friendly and accessible to young children and recently has been writing books that celebrate feelings, friendship, empathy, families, and diversity. When she's not writing or researching very specific details on dinosaurs, Felicity can be found tramping through fields and forests foraging for food or just curled up with a bag of Twiglets, a couple of cats and a crossword.

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