Title
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