A simple explanation of families, how they function, how they are different, and how they are alike.

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...

Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.

"This book begins the conversation on love with a supportive approach that considers both the child and the adult"--

"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...

Children with two dads do fun things with their fathers.

The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas.

Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal.

Using a family tree, a child explains how his sister, parents, grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousin are related to him.