Kristi+Bohucki

 **Children's Literature: ** **//Family //** **Kristi Bohucki ** 

**Fiction ** **Literature ** Coste, Marion. 1938. **Finding Joy**. Boyds Mills Press, Inc. 26 pages. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. 

This is a story about a family who lives in China and is not able to keep their new baby girl. Her parents have to leave her with a note asking someone to take care of her. Luckily, someone finds her to an orphanage. The baby girl is adopted by a family that lives far across the ocean. The story continues on to tell the family's journey to adopt a baby girl. To extend this book, especially if you have someone who is adopted in your classroom, you can have the child talk about it. You can share with the class that even though they were adopted, they still have a family like you. You can also use this book when you talk about China and it's history of only being allowed to have one child and how most families want their one child to be a boy. Genre: Fiction Cutis, Jamie Lee. 2000. **Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born**. 40 pages. Personal Collection. 

Sometimes mommy's are not able to have babies. Luckily there are special people in this world that are willing to give their children up for adoption because they are not able to take care of them. This story leads you through the process of how a family adopted a child. This book would be great to show a class how families can be different. In the book, it shares the child's family tree. You can have your students create a family tree and talk about the different places that their families have come from. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Fisher, Valerie. 2002. **My Big Brother**. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 30 pages. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">My Big Brother is the perfect book for any child that has a big brother. They are able to relate to how their big brother helps them do things. It also talks about all of the "cool" things big brothers are able to do on their own, but in the end your big brother loves you. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book would be great when you talk about brothers, whether they are big or small. It will help children understand how much they look up to a big brother. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hoberman, Mary Ann. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers: a collection of family poems **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book holds a collection of poems about all different types of family members. There are poems for the crazy family members and there are poems for brothers and sisters. So, take a dive and introduce children into this wonderful assortment of poetry. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book would be a great introduction into writing poems. Children can look at the different types of poems and learn how to recognize them. They will be able to use these great examples to create their own poetry. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction and Poetry <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Hoberman, Mary Ann. 2009. **All Kinds of Families!**. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 40 pages. Personal Collection. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The author of this book gives children a different outlook on families. She shows children that families can be made up of many different things. For example she shows how many different types of buttons can come together to be a family. It is a great way to have children think about how everyone is a part of a family, and they are all unique in their own way. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This would be a great extension activity if you want children to think outside the box about families. You can have the children create families of different objects that they find around the room. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Hoffman, Mary. 2011. **The Great Big Book of Families**. Dial. 40 pages. Personal Collection. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">There are many different types of families. This book will help you understand and learn about all of the different types of families. This book will tell you about the different holidays, schools, pets, and anything that is different about each family. This book is a great resource for teachers to learn about all of the different types of families. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book would be excellent for introducing all of the different types of families that are in your classroom. If students are learning about different cultures this would be a great book for all ages because it gives them a glance at what certain families are made up of. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Krensky, Stephen. 2004. **My Dad Can Do Anything**. Random House. 23 pages. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">It takes someone very special to be a dad. Dad's are great at doing many different things, and they have many talents. Dads can mow lawns, paint a house, and put out fires. However, the best thing he can do, is spending time with me. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">My Dad Can Do Anything is a great way to show children how dad's can be good at a few things or a lot of things. You can extend this book by having children draw a picture of their dad and what they do best. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Munsch, Robert. 1986 **Love You Forever**. Firefly Books (U.S) Inc. 28 pages. Personal Collection. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Love You Forever is the type of story you can read time and time again. The book follows the life of a mother and a boy and the tradition his mother has every single night. The mom picks her son up every night and sings to him "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." The son eventually grows up and he rocks his mother at night when she is sick. The son keeps this tradition alive after his daughter is born. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">You can extend this book by learning about traditions in different families. You can discuss with your students what traditions they have in their families. The song can also introduce riddles and repetition, since it is repeated several times throughout the book. You can have children create their own riddles. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Parr, Todd. 2010. **The Family Book**. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 32 pages. Tempe Public Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The Family Book talks about all different types of families. It explains to children that some families have two moms, or even two dads. Some parents are divorced and are remarried, so families might have step-moms or dads. Some relatives in our families might also look like their pets! Other families might be a little bit more unique than your family, but all families are all the same. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book could extend out from just families. You could talk to children about how all people in the world are different. Everyone is a part of a different culture, and you could use this book to help explain culture. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reilly, Natalie June. 2002. **My Stick Family**. New Horizon Press. 48 pages. Personal Collection.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Many children have divorced parents. A lot of the time, children are confused about what they are feeling. This book helps children to recognize that the feelings they have about their parents being divorced are normal. A divorce can be very confusing for children, and this book gives a basic understanding of what happens when parents get divorced. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book would be great for children who are having a tough time because their parents got a divorce, or even if you are a parent and need to explain to your children what is going on between mom and dad. This book can help strike conversations with children, and make them feel more comfortable about the situation they are going through. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Rylant, Cynthia. 1993. **The Relatives Came**. Modern Curriculum Express. 32 pages. Yavapai Elementary School Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Relatives can be pretty amusing. This book tells about a visit from relatives. Relatives love to hug one another, especially if they haven't seen you in a very long time. They also might eat all of your food, and then offer to let you eat their food when you come to visit them. Sometimes they can be loud, and you want them to go back home. Once all of the relatives leave, you want them to come back! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book would be great to talk about visiting other people, whether it is family or friends. Students can write or draw about a time when their relatives came to visit. They can talk about what they did together, and when they plan to see them next. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Skutch, Robert. 1997. **Who's in a Family?**. Tricycle Press. 32 pages. Tempe Public Library.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Learn about all of the different types of families that are all around us. There is a family for every type of family you would want to talk about with your children. This book shows that families don't have to have children to be a family. There are single mom's and dad's, and aunt's and uncle's that sometimes take care of children. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">At the end of this book, it has an extension activity that instructs a child to draw a picture of their family. You can have each child draw a picture of their family and then compare and contrast them to other families that are in your classroom. You can then hang them on the wall so that children can be reminded of how unique our families are. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Wild, Margaret. 1994. **Our Granny**. Ticknor & Fields Books for Young Readers. 29 pages. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Our Granny is a great book to share with children. They get to learn about all different types of grandma's. They will learn all different things about granny's like where they work to the clothes they wear. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">You can extend this activity by asking children to talk about their grandma's. They can draw a picture of them and talk about the different attributes of her. What does your grandma wear? Where does she work? How many grandchildren does she have? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Yum, Hyewon. 2011. **The Twins' Blanket**. D&M Publishers Inc.. 32 pages. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Twins have a unique bond together. When twins share everything for a long time, and they eventually have to separate, it is a hard thing to do. The twins in this book have to learn to sleep separately with different blankets, and it is a hard adjustment to have to make. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This would be a great book to read if someone has a twin in their family, or even on twin day to help children understand what twins are. Have them draw a picture of what they think their twin would look like, or if they have a twin, draw a picture of their twin. You can also connect this story to having to share something with another person, and how it made you feel when you had to share. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Zolotow, Charlotte. 1947. **Hold My Hand Five Stories of Love and Family**. 60 pages. Scottsdale Civic Center Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Hold My Hand is a collection of five stories about love and families. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">1. But Not Billy: This story is about a baby and everything a newborn does. One day, the baby stands up and surprises mom. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">2. Hold My Hand: This poem about a child and their parent walking through the snow as they hold each other's hands. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">3. Timothy Too!: Timothy has a bigger brother named John. Sometimes John wished that Timothy wasn't there. John does everything possible to get away from him, but one day, he finds out that they can both do something together. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">4. Big Brother: Big brothers aren't always nice to their little sisters, but sometimes they can find something in common with each other to pass the time away. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">5. The Summer Night: Sometimes it's hard to go to sleep at night, but dad's know just what to do. Dad takes his daughter on a walk to a pond in the middle of the night. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book is filled with lots of different stories about all different types of families. You can have children pick their favorite story out of the book and put a collage of pictures together bout their favorite story. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Fiction and Poetry <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 72pt; text-align: center;">Non-Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 72pt; text-align: center;">Literature <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Adamson, Heather. 2009. **Families in Many Cultures**. 24 pages. Pebble Plus. Yavapai Elementary School Library.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Take a walk around the world as you learn about all of the different types of families there are all around you. Children will be able to compare their family in America to all of the different types of families from around the world. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Children will also learn about what families in other countries do. You can then extend this book to teach children about individual countries. You can then branch out into other topics about those individual countries such as what people in those countries eat and wear. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Genre: Non-Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Cairo, Shelley. 1988. **Our Brother Has Down's Syndrome**. Annick Press. 24 pages. Yavapai Elementary School Library. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This is a personal story about a boy named Jai. Jai has down syndrome. His sisters describe how Jai is the same as other children, but sometimes he needs help doing things. This book uses real photographs of Jai and his family to tell the story. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This book would be great to read to children who are exposed to someone that has down's syndrome, or any other type of disability. It doesn't go into great detail about what down's syndrome is, but it explains to children that just because someone needs a little bit of extra help, they are just like everybody else. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Non-Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Kuklin, Susan. 2006. **Families**. 40 pages. Hyperion Book CH. Tempe Public Library.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">This book steps into the lives of 14 real life families. Each family describes how they are all different from one another in their own unique way. This book goes into depth about each family. It talks about the different religions, cultural backgrounds, and even families that have children with special needs. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">This book would be great to read to children that do not have exposure to different types of families. Children will be able to pick out the characteristics that their own family has and compare it to other families that are in this book. Children can also learn about different religions and traditions certain families have. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Genre: Non-Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Scillian, Devin. 2011. **H Is for Honor: A Military Family Alphabet**. 40 pages. Sleeping Bear Press. Tempe Public Library.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Children should be aware of all of the different Armed Services there are, especially when a mom or dad goes away to help out our country. H Is for Honor talks about the many different aspects of what it is like to be in a military family. It describes what it is like to live on base and what families do when they live on base. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">This book is great to read to children so that they can understand what our Armed Services do to help. It helps them gain an understanding of what someone in the military does other than just fighting in wars. The book talks about how soldiers love to get mail. You could extend this activity by having children write letters to thank our soldiers, or you could have the school collect items to donate to soldiers. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Genre: Non-Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Turnbull, Ann. 2010. **Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality; Positive Outcomes Through Partnerships and Trust**. 336 pages. Pearson. Personal Collection.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">This book is filled with lots of great information about all different types of families. It’s also filled with many different resources you might need to use with your students and their families. There is lots of information about families that have children with special needs and all of the resources they have available to them. It also gives definitions of what each disability is, and places you can go to find more information for families. You can also find information about foster homes and how families work while children are in foster homes. This book also discusses how you should talk to different families during conferences at school and how to handle the different questions parents might ask you. This is an all-around great teacher resource book to have on hand at all times. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">You will be able to extend this information into your classrooms because you will be more knowledgeable of the different types of issues families deal with, and how you can help them. This book will help you lay down the basics in understanding different families and how to communicate with them. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Genre: Non-Fiction <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Teacher Resource