Meet my Family! Animal Babies and Their Families by Laura Purdie Salas

• Plot Summary: What kind of families do animal babies have? All different kinds! Charming text and sweet illustrations introduce a wolf pup cared for by the pack, a young orangutan snuggling with its mother high in a tree, a poison dart frog tadpole riding piggyback on its dad, and more. Featuring rhyming verse and informational text, this book lets you discover just how diverse the animal kingdom really is!

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• This informational book features 26 animal families with diverse compositions from a troupe of orangutans all parenting together to a dog adopting a monkey baby to a pair of female albatross parents. Finally, this book offers illustrations of a diverse range of human families, challenging what it means to be a “normal,” “natural” family.