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    <body><![CDATA[This book brought a tear to my eye. Controversial, tender, and sensitive, you get a true feeling how the adopted children of two lesbian women must have felt growing up in a house with so much love. The children were Black, White, and Asian, and their mothers were White women. They were full of affe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73967963">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>In Our Mother's House</em> is the story of a family. While the author wrote the story about two mother's instead of a traditional family with a mother and father, this book could appeal to children with any non-traditional family. Rather than focus on the same-sex relationship, this book focuses on the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66281693">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first thing I noticed about this book was that the people are so happy in it-- they're smiling on almost every page.  The story is about a lesbian couple who are raising three children (one white, one black, and one Asian), and their positive impact on the children and on their community.  A lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61676786">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fiction: Patricia Polacco's In Our Mother's House 2009 Is a story of 3 adopted children being raised by two mom's. A very well written story!! I thought this book was not only well written and illustrated as all Patricia Polacco books are, but it really portrays some of the mean spiritedness childre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81266894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this is the way a picture book introducing the concept of GLBT and mixed racial families to children should be done. Real people, real situations, and what a house full of love looks like. Loved the artwork, the story telling, and the characters. After reading this book, other pic books like &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67870146">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had me bawling by the end.  It is one of those really simple picture books about what family means, and how family can be forever.  Polacco is basically an emotional genuius.  This would be a great story to read to a second or third grade class if you were teaching in a more liberal school...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71542061">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Marmee and Meema and their three children fill their lives with the of joy of new puppies, holiday meals and homemade Halloween costumes.  They cook together, laugh together, dance together.  Their lives are like any other family in their town.  And while one of their neighbors doesn't accept them b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68976380">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I cried. I cried alot a bunch of big fat tears. This is about the love of parents. Again Polacco has touched my heart and made me see the world for the beauty that is there even through the wrong that is always trying to mess with the beauty. I can't tell you enough that you should read this somewhe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55749239">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think it's good to have books for LGBTQ and nontraditional families.  This one, I thought, was a little too...picture perfect.  And the reason why one family is the neighborhood dislikes the main family is never really addressed.  I liked it, and I thought it was cute, but a little too ideal and p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77091935">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together.<em> But some of the other families don’t accept them. They say they are different. How can a family have two moms and no dad? But Marmee and Meema’s house is full of love. And they teach their children that different doesn’t mean wrong. And no matter how many moms or dads they have, they are everything a family is meant to be.<p> Here is a true Polacco story of a family, living by their own rules, and the strength they gain by the love they feel.</p></em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm all for picture books that depict the &quot;non traditional family,&quot; but this book is way too heavy on the text and I'm not a fan of the illustrations.  The story is good, but could be told in a better way.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together.<em> But some of the other families don’t accept them. They say they are different. How can a family have two moms and no dad? But Marmee and Meema’s house is full of love. And they teach their children that different doesn’t mean wrong. And no matter how many moms or dads they have, they are everything a family is meant to be.<p> Here is a true Polacco story of a family, living by their own rules, and the strength they gain by the love they feel.</p></em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book about a family headed by a lesbian couple. The story's focus is on the family not the sexual orientation of the parents. Beautiful story, beautifully told. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together.<em> But some of the other families don’t accept them. They say they are different. How can a family have two moms and no dad? But Marmee and Meema’s house is full of love. And they teach their children that different doesn’t mean wrong. And no matter how many moms or dads they have, they are everything a family is meant to be.<p> Here is a true Polacco story of a family, living by their own rules, and the strength they gain by the love they feel.</p></em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book with the girls tonight and started crying at the end.  It was such a sweet story of a family very like my own.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[*sniffle* Patricia Polacco is an expert at writing picture books that make me cry!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://pinotandprose.blogspot.com/2009/03/review-in-our-mothers-house-by-patricia.html">Pinot and Prose</a>.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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