When I Grow Up...
Illustrator
Paula Vasquez
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Publication Year
2017
ISBN
9781423646891
Pages
40 pages
Genre
fantasy
Format
picturebook
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
All of the children in Miss Ester's class know what they want to be like when they grow up: their families! And each family is special and unique. Readers will be surprised and delighted to find that Johnny the duckling's mom and dad have curly tails, stubby noses, and hooves. Johnny and his classmates make it easy for parents to show their little ones that there are many types of families, and they're all made of love.
Grade Level
PK-1, K-3
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; interracial/transracial adoption; adoptive parents
Main Character
multiple
Race/Ethnicities
multiple
Family Formation
multiple
Keywords
friendship; families; animals
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Vasquez, Paula, "When I Grow Up..." (2017). Diverse Families. 663.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/663