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Book recommendations about different types of families

If you are a foster parent to a young child, they might be wondering about their new living situation. As a child in foster care, they might not be sure if their foster family is ‘real family.’

Look no further, as we at Beacon Fostering have some recommendations for books you can use to explore different family structures and how love and unity can come in all forms.

All Kinds of Families by Sophy Henn (for ages 3-6)

Henn uses animals to explore the wide variety of family structures that exist across species, demonstrating the commonalities between them and human families, while educating children on how albatrosses, emus and orangutans raise their young.

Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer (recommended for ages 1-4 years)

This board book shows the joys that different families can bring, and the ways in which they show love, which forms the foundation of a good family – regardless of whether one has a mother, a father, or both, or even two mothers and two fathers.

A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary and Qin Leng (for ages 4-7)

When a schoolteacher asks her class to consider what makes their families special, the children respond with various ways in which their families are different. While one child is worried that she won’t be able to explain her family, her classmates share their experiences with stepsiblings, grandparents and having two dads.

My Bright Shining Star by Fatima Whitbread (age 4-8 years)

Based on her own childhood, this book follows Fatima as she tries to find her ‘forever family’, and her relationship with Aunty Rae, her ‘shining star.’