The Little Green Goose
Illustrator
Alan Marks
Publisher
North-South Books
Publication Year
1999
ISBN
9780735810723
Pages
32 pages
Genre
animal realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Mr. Goose finds an abandoned egg, hatches it, and raises a peculiar green-skinned long-tailed chick, who worries about his identity but comes to recognize that he has a loving parent.
Grade Level
PK-1
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Single parent; Interracial; adopted child; adoptive father; single father; interracial/transracial adoption; interracial family
Main Character
male dinosaur; male goose
Race/Ethnicities
Animals
Family Formation
adoptive father
Keywords
dads who want to be parents; geese; identity; dinosaurs; egg; hatching; farm animals
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Sansone, Adele and James, J. Alison, "The Little Green Goose" (1999). Diverse Families. 434.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/434