Everyone has a house, but it will not be a home without your family’s love and care. Home is where love is, now and always. Like many of my fellow Cannonballers, books are a vital thing in my life. I am not exaggerating when I say I would not be alive without them, and so I don't tend to underestimate how important they can be, ever, but I often see them undervalued in the greater world, which is unfortunate. Unfortunate because books can be one of an adults most essential tools for teaching - well, for teaching anything, but if we're talking about how we go about teaching our kids how to become good people? Then books can be 90% of your toolbox, and the other 10% is just living what you're preaching.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that a family is an important thing – A family is not just that. A family is everything to a single individual. Memories of friendships and relationships may fade away, but the love that you receive from your family is one that will never go away. You will always remember your family members, even long after they are gone.

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Work is important, but family is even more so. After all, when you start a family, they are the ones that you swore to protect. Put time aside for your family. Just about every sort of family you can possibly imagine was included in this tale, including LGBT+, interracial, adoptive, and single-parent families. No matter who was being shown helping their child find a lost toy or having a tea party, the love that each parent felt for their child or children shone through in every scene. It made me smile to see how much effort the author put into focusing on what we all share in common no matter who we are or what we look like. Kindness Makes Us Strong & Love Makes A Family, both by Sophie Beer; and What Happened to You? by James Catchpole. Book: The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali (Little Brown Books for Young Readers) What We Love: Sierra’s drive to make it possible for her aunt to come and see one of her soccer games is inspiring.

Ask the richest people in the world what their true priorities are, and they will tell you that it’s their family. Such is the importance of a family to everyone. What We Love: This book beautifully smashes stereotypes around what makes a family “real.” It is also told from the perspective of children and expresses a voice of innocence and love. We also adore the whimsical illustrations that are similar to the style of Ludwig Bemelmans’ Madeline . Something else that might be harder for tiny humans to understand is "what things can I be curious about, and what things should be private", and that leads us straight into What Happened To You? As a disabled person, the number of times I have been asked invasive questions about my health, my disability status, my wheelchair, &/or other more embarrassing private things about my body in public is really too high to count. And each disabled person has their own comfort level about questions and what they are willing to share: For example, I don't care if your four year old asks me what's wrong with my legs, bc I was a preschool teacher, and I'm used to answering those kind of questions from tiny humans. I prefer it, actually, to the whisper-yelling you think you are subtle about (you are not) when you're kid asks you, and you drag them away from me, which I think teaches them to be afraid of people like me. But I don't answer invasive questions from adults, and I get a lot of those too. Also, that's just me: Other disabled adults AND CHILDREN get to decide their own comfort levels with both the question and the answers they give, and that is 100% the point of What Happened to You? Journey with Thuy (Twee) through nature, experience her emotions, and discover mythical creatures we can all relate to. Explore how knowing where we come from can help us uncover our strengths. What We Love: The story centers on Aidan, a trans boy, who shows the depth and complexity of gender identity. Aidan shows us there are many ways of being a boy, and there are many ways of being a kid.Se trata de un álbum ilustrado cuyo objetivo es transmitir a los peques de la casa que da igual quien forme la familia; lo más importante es que esta se construya a partir del amor. Family may make you angry, make you frustrated and hurtful, but your family is also the ones who love you and know you best. A family is a strong circle filled with endless, unconditional love. Every crisis and obstacles faced by this closed circle will only make it stronger than ever before. Family life can contribute to each family member’s happiness greatly. Without a happy home, a happy career, happy environment or happy anything would not be possible.

Familial love is much more important than anything else to me. Their love for me gives me the strength to go through the day, and the motivation to be better at everything I do. This book defines families not by objective standards but by a subjective one, the emotion of personal affection. Such affection is almost always present in a family defined by biological ties, recognized by law. At the same time, people are limited, fallible, short-sighted, and selfish, so that many biological families have had difficult relationships and sometimes dreadfully so. The idea of a family founded on love, and love alone may seem attractive for that reason. Find me someone successful who does not love his or her own family. The existence of such a person is almost an impossible feat because one simply cannot be successful without the love and support from your family first. A family is a gift. It’s a gift so important and precious that many would sacrifice everything that they have just to ensure their family’s safety and well-being. Additionally, students will be pushed to “read” the illustrations, noticing how illustrations in a text provide clues about events, settings, and characters. When discussing the text, students transition from focusing on clarifying and sharing their thoughts during a discussion to engaging with the thinking of others. Students learn how to build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others and asking questions to clear up confusion about the topics or texts under discussion.Imagine a family without love – siblings fight, parents argue, and there’s no peace in a family. Such a place cannot be called a home, much less a family. Things to Know: While the author of this book is a white woman, it is still a lovely story featuring POC characters. Family and love are two words that are inseparable from one another. Without love, there’s no family, and with no family, there’s no love. These two coexist peacefully and create a wonderful synergy. A family is like the many small branches on a tree – you may all grow in different lengths and directions, but these branches are all interconnected with each other. Our families are our guidance. In families, we find inspirations, motivations and strength to reach new heights and break the limits.