Children's Fiction Alternative Family
Families
- Publisher
- Inhabit Media
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2017
- Category
- Alternative Family, Native Canadian, LGBT, Polar Regions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772271614
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $10.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772271577
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $12.95
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Downloadable audio file
- ISBN
- 9781772274158
- Publish Date
- Jan 2022
- List Price
- $6.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 6 to 8
- Grade: 1 to 3
- Reading age: 6 to 8
Description
Talittuq is excited to start his first day of grade two. He is looking forward to the new school year, but as he meets his friends again for the first time after summer vacation, he notices that a lot of his friends’ families are very different from his own. Some have one mom and one dad, and some have only a mom. Some kids live with their grandparents. Some live with two dads or two moms. As Talittuq hears about all the fun his friends have had with their families, he learns that families come in many different shapes and sizes, and what holds them all together is love!
About the authors
Kerry McCluskey has been working as a journalist and writer in the Arctic, telling the stories of the North since 1993. In 1999, she began travelling across the Arctic collecting stories, information, photographs, and artwork about ravens from Inuit, First Nations, and non-Aboriginal Northerners alike. Tulugaq, her first book, is the result of this research.
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Jesse Unaapik Mike was born and raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where she lives with her partner, Moriah, and her daughter, Niviaq. She is raising her daughter through shared custody and hopes to raise her daughter in a better world with more love and less hate. Jesse has been advocating for Inuit youth since she was a teenager and has built on that to advocate for all Inuit on issues that most people will not speak of.
Jesse Unaapik Mike's profile page
Lenny Lishchenko is not a boy. She is an illustrator, graphic designer, and comic maker, who will never give up the chance to draw a good birch tree. Ukrainianborn and Canadian raised, she’s interested in telling stories that people remember years later, in the early mornings where everything is quiet and still. She’s worked with clients such as Lenny Letter, Power Athletics Ltd. Alberta Venture, and Rubicon Publishing, and is based out of Mississauga, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
" Families is a lovely, inclusive story that showcases numerous family setups... With a storyline that celebrates the diversity and strength of all kinds of family units, [Families] a happy tale with a loving message. Highly Recommended."—CM Magazine
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