Book about lesbian families.

I found this book while I was looking through our text book and I picked it up at the library yesterday. The name of the book is Molly's Family by Nancy Garden. The book is about a little girl who has two mom's. One mother is her birth mother and the other is her adopted mother. When she is asked at school to make a picture of her family for back to school night, her drawing gets made fun of by a boy in her class. He tells her that she can't have two mommy's. Molly tries to defend herself by saying how other people in the class sometimes have just a mommy or just a daddy. After this little boy still wasn't giving up, Molly talked to her mom at home. Her parents explained to her that you can have two mommy's, two daddy's, or grandparents or other people can be your parents too. The teacher talks to the class about different types of families and at the back to school night Molly proudly displays her picture and the class finally learns to accept all differnet families. I found this book very helpful and very easy for a child to read. I would keep this in my classroom library regardless if I had a child with gay or lesbian parents, or not. I think it's important to let children know about things they may not be familiar with. I'm sure some parents wouldn't like a teacher telling their child about gay/lesbian couples, but it's something they're going to come in contact with whether they like it or not. It's everywhere now, all over TV and even in cartoons! I would also read this book to my class if there was a child in the class with gay/lesbian parents and they were being targeted by other students. I suggest everyone read this book it's really worth it!

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