A review by shanny1366
All Kinds of Families! by Mary Ann Hoberman

2.0

Many of the attempted rhymes in this book were slightly jarring. Also, the abrupt switches back and forth between how to make families out of inanimate objects to families of actual people made the book seem uneven. Overall, it could use a lot of smoothing out. Further, the ending assumes that every little child will themselves grow up to have children and make new families. This social pressure and assumption will be placed on children enough without them getting it from a picture book as well.

I obtained this book hoping for something that I could use in a diversity-themed story time, to talk about how some families have two mommies, two daddies, or the two parents might look different, or adoption, etc. . . Since a big focus of the book was inanimate objects, it would be a stretch to use the book this way. I was disappointed.