All Kinds of Families

By Norma Simon
Illustrated by Joe Lasker

Explores in words and pictures what a family is and how families vary in makeup and styles.

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9780807502808
March 2015

Reviews

Embracing the full spectrum of families, nuclear, traditional, adoptive, racial, and divorced households are represented in a lucid, contemporary style. The natural events of family living—weddings, holiday celebrations, family visits, deaths, human failures and breaches of love—are ably depicted through Joe Lasker’s watercolor illustrations which convey an old-fashioned, tintype mood accentuated by their subdued tones.

- School Library Journal
The diversity of family structures in our multiethnic society is warmly and positively conveyed in this picture book, which stresses the supportive nature of the family, whether together or apart. That families are for “caring…loving…sharing” in good as well as sad times is iterated joyously in flowing text and soft, expressive illustrations—alternating color with black-and-white spreads—of a great variety of family units and experiences.

- Booklist

Author

Norma Simon

Norma Simon wrote more than fifty books for children.

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Illustrator

Joe Lasker

Joe Lasker won his first art prize, a medal, when he was a third grader in Brooklyn. Even then he knew that he wanted to be an artist and nothing else. He attended the Cooper Union Art School in New York City but his career was delayed by service in World War II. When he resumed painting, he won Prix de Rome and Guggenheim fellowships that made possible study in Europe and Mexico. His paintings are in museum collections, and he has had numerous one-man shows in New York and Philadelphia. He lives in Connecticut.

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Common Core

RI.K-1.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 SL.K.1a,1b,2,3,4,5 SL.1.1a,1b,1c,2,3,4,5

Accelerated Reader Points: 0.50
ATOS Level: 4.60

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