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Meet My Family! Animal Babies and Their Families

Meet My Family!
Animal Babies and Their Families
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Every family’s different. Each family is just right!

Do you ever feel like your family is…weird? Different? Embarrassing? So many kids feel that way, and here’s a book to reassure them that all kinds of families can work just fine. Meet animal babies who are only children or one of a ton. Who are raised by one parent, two parents, or a whole herd of women. Who take care of themselves or have grown-ups who take care of them.  Charming rhyming text and engaging illustrations introduce the family lives of 23 species (including humans). In-depth backmatter gives lots more details in this book celebrating diverse families.

Author: Laura Purdie Salas
Illustrator: Stephanie Fizer Coleman
Publisher: Millbrook Press, 2018
ISBN: 978-1512425321

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A Can Be… Project for Students

Looking for a terrific student informational writing project? Use Laura's Can Be... books as mentor texts, and watch students dive in to informational writing through classroom or individual books. This is a great project for research, text structure, patterns, and integrating illustrations and text. Click here for info about writing nonfiction Can Be... books at school. Includes a video, templates, and complete lesson plan!

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