This touching book tells the story of a loving family with two mothers, Marmee and Meema, raising their three adopted children. Although some of their neighbors don't accept them because they're different, the women handle the situation with grace and focus instead on their many supporters. This is a family like any other experiencing holiday meals, laughter and new puppies. Along the way, the mothers teach their children that different isn't bad or wrong. This book could be viewed as controversial because it deals with a lesbian couple and a non-traditional family. However, this story could be used as a tool to teach students to value and accept others, regardless of their sexual orientation, and about diversity and different types of families. As a reader, I took away lessons to celebrate differences and that families today are not defined by having one mom and one dad, but instead by love and support for one another. As a teacher, I would use this book with younger students during a unit on different types of families today and students could write poetry or draw pictures of their own family. In addition, students could bring in pictures of their family and create an art project using them and share with the class.
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