Children's Fiction Alternative Family
Une famille... c'est une famille
- Publisher
- Scholastic Canada Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2018
- Category
- Alternative Family, New Baby, Stepfamilies
- Recommended Age
- 4 to 7
- Recommended Grade
- p to 2
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781443164979
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
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Une enseignante demande aux eleves de sa classe de reflechir a ce qui rend leur famille speciale. L'un d'entre eux croit que sa famille est trop differente des autres pour pouvoir l'expliquer.
En ecoutant ses camarades decrire des familles de tous les types et de toutes les tailles, il realise que sa famille, bien qu'atypique, n'en est pas moins une famille.
Tant l'adoption que les familles reconstituees, l'homoparentalite, le divorce et les familles traditionnelles sont abordes dans cet album ecrit par l'auteure Sara O'Leary, laureate de plusieurs prix. Un regard chaleureux et captivant sur differents types de familles, souligne tout en douceur par les illustrations exquises de Qin Leng.
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways — but the same in the one way that matters most of all.
One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. As they describe who they live with and who loves them — family of every shape, size and every kind of relation — the child realizes that as long as her family is full of caring people, it is special.
A warm and whimsical look at many types of families, written by award-winning author Sara O'Leary, with quirky and sweet illustrations by Qin Leng.
Original title: A Family Is a Family Is a Family
About the authors
Sara O'Leary est auteure de livres pour adultes et pour enfants. Parmi ses oeuvres les plus connues, la série à succès Henry et les albums This is Sadie, illustré par Julie Morstad et You Are One, illustré par Karen Klassen. Diplômée du programme de création littéraire de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique, elle a enseigné la scénarisation et l'écriture pour enfants à l'Université Concordia.
Sara O'Leary is a writer of fiction for both adults and children. She is the author of the award-winning series of Henry books and This Is Sadie, illustrated by Julie Morstad, and You Are One, illustrated by Karen Klassen. A graduate of the UBC Creative Writing Program, she has taught screenwriting and writing for children at Concordia University in Montreal.
Qin Leng was born in Shanghai, China. At the age of five, she moved with her family to Bordeaux, France, where she spent the next four years. Soon after, she moved to Montreal, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Having been born in Asia but raised in the West, she uses both cultures as her source of inspiration. Looking at her illustrations, one can see the presence of both East and West.Qin Leng comes from a family of artists, where the visual senses have always been of the utmost importance. She grew up watching her father work with acrylics, pastel, and ink. Father and daughter often spent their days drawing side by side. Drawing first started as a hobby, but soon became a way of expression.Despite her many years of study to become a biologist, Qin decided at the age of 20 to follow the same path as her father and enrolled in the School of Cinema to study Film Animation at Concordia University. She has produced animated shorts, which were nominated in various nationa
Awards
- Short-listed, Prix Ruth et Sylvia Schwartz
- Short-listed, prix Ruth et Sylvia Schwartz
Editorial Reviews
« La vaste diversite des constellations familiales est rafraichissante... J'accorde un A plus a ce livre. » ~ Kirkus Reviews
« Les illustrations de la vie quotidienne realisees par Qin Leng, sont, tout comme l'ecriture de Sara O'Leary, charmantes sans etre sentimentales. Combinees, elles presentent une vision directe et optimiste de la vie quotidienne moderne. » ~ Publishers Weekly
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