Valores como la igualdad y la defensa de la diversidad están muy presentes en este álbum que, por cierto, tiene unas ilustraciones preciosas. Si tenéis oportunidad, echadle un vistazo porque de verdad que vale la pena. Assessment Text: “Sitti's Secrets” by Naomi Shihab Nye and illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Aladdin)

Y esto es lo que refleja precisamente este cuento, que recoge diversas situaciones de la vida cotidiana protagonizadas por diferentes modelos de familia. El objetivo es que los más pequeños aprendan que lo verdaderamente importante es siempre el amor, más allá de quién o como sea la persona con la que conviven. Each person has two families in their lives. One that they are brought up in, and one that they make themselves when they wed another. Love both the same, and you’ll see happiness in your life.Book: My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Scholastic Press, 1 edition, 2010) I love my family. We might not say it verbally much, but we show our love in every other way possible. Family love does not need to be expressed verbally. We just know.

Journey with Thuy (Twee) through nature, experience her emotions, and discover mythical creatures we can all relate to. Explore how knowing where we come from can help us uncover our strengths. Diversity 7: I can describe some ways that I am similar to and different from people who share my identities and those who have other identities. Things to Know: While this book is highly inclusive, we would have loved to see even more representation like families with members who have disabilities, gender non conforming adults and kids, and gender variance in how characters dressed. Love Makes a Family was a non-profit advocacy and assistance organization of families headed by LGBT people, and their friends, working for equal marriage and family rights in the United States. It was also the name of a former organization in Connecticut that disbanded in 2009 after achieving its aims. Hence it’s my responsibility to make sure my children don’t grow up with any preconceived notion about anyone’s family type. Especially if you have babies and toddlers, discussions pertaining to family structure different than yours can be difficult for them to understand, but that doesn’t mean we have to refrain from introducing them to such topics .

Something else that might be harder for tiny humans to understand is "what things can I be curious about, and what things should be private", and that leads us straight into What Happened To You? As a disabled person, the number of times I have been asked invasive questions about my health, my disability status, my wheelchair, &/or other more embarrassing private things about my body in public is really too high to count. And each disabled person has their own comfort level about questions and what they are willing to share: For example, I don't care if your four year old asks me what's wrong with my legs, bc I was a preschool teacher, and I'm used to answering those kind of questions from tiny humans. I prefer it, actually, to the whisper-yelling you think you are subtle about (you are not) when you're kid asks you, and you drag them away from me, which I think teaches them to be afraid of people like me. But I don't answer invasive questions from adults, and I get a lot of those too. Also, that's just me: Other disabled adults AND CHILDREN get to decide their own comfort levels with both the question and the answers they give, and that is 100% the point of What Happened to You? Book: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 1 edition, 2015) Se trata de un álbum ilustrado cuyo objetivo es transmitir a los peques de la casa que da igual quien forme la familia; lo más importante es que esta se construya a partir del amor. A family is a gift. It’s a gift so important and precious that many would sacrifice everything that they have just to ensure their family’s safety and well-being. Love Makes a Family is another great book to start my collection of LGBTQ books. I love how subtle the author made the showcasing of LGBTQ in the illustrations. The main idea in this book was love. It didn't matter what your family consisted of as long as the family is showing some act of love. At the kindergarten age they are so naive and the biggest idea I want to teach them is empathy and kindness. I want my students to realize that everyone is different, as well as, their families. That is what makes us special. I always teach that if we were all the same it would be so boring. The same can go in with learning about families being different. I love how the author not only showcased LGBTQ families but also grandparents and different cultures in the book.