Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems

What is a family?

Who is a family?

Either a lot or a few is a family;

But whether there's ten or there's two in your family,

All of your family plus you is a family!

There is something for everyone in this celebration of families — poems about families of all sizes and configurations, about brothers and sisters, adoptees and stepsiblings, parents and grandparents, even a special ode to the only child. Both poems and Hafner's warm expressive illustrations convey the sense of what makes family life at once so wonderful and so unpredictable. Told from a child's point of view, the poems are perfect for reading alone or in the classroom and for family story times as well.

• Author
• Mary Ann Hoberman, Marylin Hafner

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 32

• Publisher
• Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-316-36251-1

• EAN
• 9780316362511

• Genres
• poetry, family, childrens

• Release date
• 2001