We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. A past poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, she is a faculty member of Spalding University's brief-residency MFA in Writing program. Everything else has a fun, upbeat universality to it: the packing of lunches, the trip to the playground, the baking of cakes and the end-of-the-day bath. I did like the book because it demonstrates that same gender parents can be loving and caring like any other parents. It is age appropriate for beginner readers and the activities the characters are doing will definitely gain interest and help children relate it to what they play with their family.

So, for example, while you won't see the dads sporting out-of-date moustaches and earrings, at the same time these don't look like two businessmen who happen to be living in the same space. My son loves this book and brings it to us to read constantly - I think it's going to be a favourite! With the colorful illustrations by artist Carol Thompson the day to day life of these non-traditional families is depicted in a realistic way.

The illustrator Carol Thompson did a fantastic job of depicting the background with bright and beautiful drawings that followed the words down the period. I especially appreciate the fact that it's a board book, and therefore meant for the very young child, as I cannot think of any other early childhood books in a similar vein. Sure, I'd love to see publishers taking a chance and creating more books of this type out there, but the stories really stand on their own merits and deserve to be considered as just great little board books in and of themselves.

I wasn't sure what to classify this book as under our current genres so I classified it as realistic fiction because it discusses family units that exist. The illustrations look to be water color or crayon like to make the pages very pleasing and relaxing to read and look through. The book does not draw as much attention to the fact that the child's parents are a lesbian couple as it does to the fact that they love their child and are doing an excellent job as a normal parents who are doing everything in their power to care for their baby. This board book includes the characters of a young child that has two mothers with a setting of a home and playground.The book gives children a new insight into lesbian families without using any biases or chapter oversimplification.

The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. For a child reading this story, they may sing or recite this story because of the rhythmic structure, while thinking of family in a joyful way. For a child with 2 moms it will help them portray themselves and identify their family environment as being conventional. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Lesléa Newman is the author of 75 books for readers of all ages including the teen novel in verse, OCTOBER MOURNING: A SONG FOR MATTHEW SHEPARD; the middle grade novel, HACHIKO WAITS; the poetry collection, I CARRY MY MOTHER; the short story collection, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK; and the children's books, A SWEET PASSOVER, THE BOY WHO CRIED FABULOUS, KETZEL, THE CAT WHO COMPOSED, and HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES.Lesléa Newman (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The Femme Mystique, Still Life with Buddy, Fat Chance and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear. In terms of the art, I've seen Carol Thompson's illustrations for books like Frieda Wishinsky's Oonga Boonga and Toby Forward's What Did You Do Today before. Through delightful rhymes and engaging pictures, the book provides a gentle and affirming introduction to different family structures for young readers. They add a little extra to the story, by really showing the loving relationships between the characters. All in all, Mommy, Mama, and Me is a wonderful children's book, which hopefully teaches children that families comes in different shapes and sizes, but at the core, just the same as any other family.

Newman wrote Heather Has Two Mommies, the first children's book to portray lesbian families in a positive way, and has followed up this pioneering work with several more children's books on lesbian and gay families: Gloria Goes To Gay Pride, Belinda's Bouquet, Too Far Away to Touch, and Saturday Is Pattyday. I feel as this book would be intended for 1st and 2nd graders because that’s an age where the children can get a bit of understanding of different types of families.

You can't help but become wrapped up in this fictional tale as we listened to how mommy and her count 1,2,3 or how mama hides behind a tree. The rhyming text by Lesléa Newman is made for reading aloud, and the bright illustrations by Carol Thompson capture the joy of each moment. Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. This book is very simple, it does not go into cultural diversity, but does have interracial parents.