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Picture Books: All Kinds of Families

Families come in all shapes and sizes! This list celebrates stories representing children from a whole variety of family structures.

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  • When Theo and his mother join Lula's family, the new siblings navigate the challenges and joys of forming new relationships while building sandcastles.
    Book, 2025Wilton, CT : Tiger Tales, 2025. — E MOS
  • Follow a little girl as she and her family prepare for the new baby that will soon be joining them. And simultaneously, watch the girl’s mother fly off to Korea, meet the new baby, and bring her home.
    Book, 2009New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2009. — E HEO
  • A young girl recounts how she came to be part of an adoptive family.
    Book, 2004New York : Viking, 2004. — E CAR
  • An understanding cat helps a young Korean girl adjust to her new home in America.
    Book, 2011New York : Viking, 2011. — E MCD
  • A puppy comes to live with his adoptive mother, who is a cat.
    Book, 2016New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2016] — E GAL
  • Elliot's parents do not know how to take care of him. As Elliot moves from one foster home to another, his visits with his real parents leave him anxious and conflicted about where he wants to be.
    Book, 2016Toronto, Ontario : Pajama Press, 2016. — E PEA
  • A fun and loving story about having multiple sets of grandparents and step-grandparents.
    Book, 2010Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, 2010. — E HOR
  • A boy remembers a special camping trip he shared with his father, who is now away at war.
    Book, 2024New York : Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, [2024] — E JAC
  • In this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten, we realize that families can be many things.
    Book, 2015New York : Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015. — E SHA
  • Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
    Book, 2003New York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2003. — J 306.85 PAR
  • In a kid-friendly, accessible way, this book explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family by showing one perspective on the adoption experience.
    Book, 2007New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2007. — E 362.734 PAR
  • Features all kinds of families and their lives together, with each spread showcasing one aspect of home life, from houses and holidays, to schools and pets, to feelings and family trees.
    Book, 2011New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2011. — E 306.85 HOF
  • When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special they answers differ in many ways.
    Book, 2016Toronto : Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2016. — E OLE
  • Explains the concept of family and introduces different types of families to young readers.
    Book, 2012Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2012. — E 306.85 RIS
  • An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families.
    Book, 1991New York : Holiday House, c1991. — E PEL
  • In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world -- the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the…
    Book, 2005Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, [2005] — E CAM
  • Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.
    Book, 2009©2009 — E SCA
  • Allows young readers to visit with fourteen children, each from a different country, to learn about their families.
    Book, 2014Toronto, Ontario : Kids Can Press Ltd., 2014. — J 306.85 RUU
  • Benny's little brother really wants to do what Benny is doing. But whenever he tries to join in Benny's activities, all Benny ever says is "No." What is a little fox to do, except give Benny a taste of his own medicine?
    Book, 2019Toronto : Tundra, 2019. — E FAG
  • A host of animals portrays all kinds of non-traditional families.
    Book, 2015New York : Random House, [2015] — E LAN