The Best Single Mom in the World
Illustrator
Mary Zisk
Publisher
A. Whitman
Publication Year
2001
ISBN
9780807506660
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
A girl tells how her mother decided to become a single parent and traveled overseas to adopt her and describes their happy life as a family.
Grade Level
K-3
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Single parent; Interracial; adopted child; adoptive mother; single mother; interracial/transracial adoption; international adoption; interracial family
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian / White
Family Formation
adoptive single mother
Keywords
bedtime stories; love; father figures; friendship; mother and daughter bond; birth mother; grandfather
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Zisk, Mary, "The Best Single Mom in the World" (2001). Diverse Families. 772.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/772