My Family, Your Family!

This simple yet effective board book employs a rhythmic structure to illustrate—and celebrate—a fluid, inclusive model of family, centering families whose parental roles are unshared, shared over distance, multigenerational, or otherwise “untraditional.” In straightforward language (“My family/ Your family”), Cole references a multitude of family types: “Their family,” reads one verso page, featuring an androgynous parent; “Shared family,” reads the recto, showing one parent waving to a child who is off to stay with another guardian. Li’s vibrantly colored illustrations portray characters of varying skin tones, religions, and abilities. A solid introduction to inclusive family structures. Ages up to 2. (Sept.)