It's about supporting one another, children learning from their parents, and parents growing as a result of having children. Oh, how I longed to visit the family-sit by that special fireplace, play with the new puppies, enjoy some of grandpa's gnocchi, laugh during that Christmas celebration. Such a wonderful, beautiful book! I am generally a huge fan of Polacco's work and I think this is one of my very favorites.įirst and foremost, this is a story about family love. I was pleasantly surprised that my library had this 2009 book, but I’m in San Francisco and there are many families in the area that have same sex parents, so I assume the library saw a need and filled it. The block party scene was fun to look at, and I was incredibly touched by the illustration toward the end of the two mothers together as elderly women. Polacco does wonders with facial expressions. I very much enjoyed most of the illustrations in this one. They’re shown as a normal and loving family, and I found them to be interesting and likeable people. The events take place from the time the oldest daughter was adopted as an infant until all three children have marriages and children of their own and their mothers have died. There’s one neighbor who’s bigoted and doesn’t like the family but all the other neighbors are friendly. There are also two cats that appear in the wonderful illustrations but they’re not mentioned in the story itself. The mothers have adopted all three children, and it’s an inter-racial family too one child appears to be African-American and one child appears to be of Asian descent. She writes about her family: her two mothers, who are lesbians and who are very accomplished in their careers and home skills both, her little brother and sister, their two dogs, their house, their neighbors, their extended family, their traditions, and their lives. The story’s narrator is the oldest child in the family. I’m sure there are plenty of books with this subject matter but I think this is a particularly excellent one. The fictional family she writes about here are residents of Berkeley, California. I concur, and I think she did a remarkable job with it. In the back of the book in the author biography section (where I finally see a photo of her) it reveals that Polacco wrote this book specifically for children she met during her speaking engagements at schools, children from untraditional families, because she saw the need for a book such as this.
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