Beginnings: How Families Come to Be

by Virginia L. Kroll

Book Overview

Parents and children discuss how their families came to be, covering birth families, adoptive families, two-parent families, and single-parent families.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807506028
• ISBN13: 9780807506028
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Gentle, lovely stories

This is a delightful book. I read it aloud to my 19 month old (adopted) daughter regularly, as one method of gently familiarizing her with life stories similar to her own. The pictures are sweet, and I like the mix of races, countries, and different situations. Highly recommended.

Absolutely Wonderful

Being a Single Adoptive Mom-to-be awaiting a child from China, I absolutely loved how this book explored the broader meaning "Family". It provides explanations in terms that a child can comprehend, that single-parent families and cross-cultural families are normal and loving environments. Thank you, Virginia Kroll, for a wonderful synopsis of the 21st Century Family!

Beginnings: How Families Came to Be

I really enjoyed using this with a second grade class becauseitexplores the diversity of modern families. It is a positive book thatshould be used in a family unit. END