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Children's books PDF Print E-mail

 

This list was created by the Family Equality Council and is reprinted with their permission.  To see their entire list of children's books featuring diverse family forms, click here.

 

 

Children's Books featuring Single Fathers

Bang, Molly. Ten, Nine, Eight, 1983

The Paper Crane, 1985

Baum, Louis. I Want to See the Moon, 1989;

One More Time, 1986

Eichler, Margrit. Martin's Father, 1971

Jam, Teddy. Night Cars, 1989

Ormerod, Jan. Dad's Back;

Messy Baby;

Reading;

Sleeping, 1985

Browne, Anthony. Gorilla, 1985

Say, Allen. The Lost Lake, 1989

Steptoe, John. Daddy is a Monster... Sometimes, 1980

Fassler, David; McQueen, Kelly. What's a Virus Anyway?: The Kid Book about AIDS, 1987

Hausherr. Rosemarie. Children and the AIDS Virus: A Book for Children, Parents, and Teachers, 1989 Merrifield, Margaret. Come Sit By Me, 1990;

Come Sit By Me Poster, 1993;

 

Children's Books featuring Single Mothers

Galloway, Priscilla. Good Times, Bad Times- Mummy and Me, 1980

Griffith, Helen V. Grandaddy's Place, 1987

Hughes, Shirly. Alfie Gets in First, 1981;

Alfie Gives a Hand, 1983

Jonas, Ann. The Trek, 1985

Loewen, Iris. My Mom is so Unusual, 1986

O'Donnell, Elizabeth Lee. Maggie Doesn't Want to Move, 1987

Rossner, Ruth. Arraba Gah Zee, Marissa and Me, 1987

Schwartz, Amy. Oma and Bobo, 1987

Williams, Vera B. A Chair for My Mother, 1982;

Something Special for Me, 1983;

Music, Music for Everyone, 1984

 

Interiview with children's book writer Todd Parr

Missing some of the rituals and books from her conservative upbringing, former AtMP board member Karen Sosnoski was happy to have found the alternative-family friendly ritual of sharing Todd Parr's progressive children's books with her daughter and partner.