Comments on: Heather’s Mommy Has Two New Books

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:19:18 +0000

Thanks, Caitlin! Yes, I have Polacco’s book in my queue for review. Since it’s for a slightly older age range, though, I wanted to tackle it separately. It is a beautiful story, but I do think it deals with some topics–homophobia and death (not together, however)–that may be a little too much for very young ones.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:13:07 +0000

Have you read and reviewed Patricia Polacco’s new book “In Our Mothers’ House”? If not, you simply must get your hands on it. It’s a really beautiful story about two lesbian moms and their three children and it follows them through their whole lives.

By: Kate Martini

Kate Martini — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:50:24 +0000

I bought this book as soon as I heard of it. I know ours is only a baby, but I like to read to him and he laughs at every line! We have a bunch of LGBT/diverse-family books that kids 2+ would get, but it’s nice to have a good board book that our little ones can see themselves in. Hope, it’s interesting that your daughters perceive the child in the book as a boy- maybe not as androgynous as the illustrator thought!
Kate

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:26:55 +0000

I didn’t realize these were “new” books. My partner and I had gone to B&N to find Heather Has Two Mommies and they didn’t have it. (Of course) However, we were pleasantly surprised to find Mommy, Mama and Me. Although it was placed in the ‘grieving’ section of B&N’s children section, we were delighted. Our two toddler daughters demand this book to be read at least 10x a day. They adore that “that little boy has two mommies just like me.”

I suppose the next step is to include those children who just happen to have two mommies, and one daddy. Or vice-versa.

Thanks again Dana for some great news for our families.