The Big Book of Families

by Catherine Anholt, Laurence Anholt

Through boisterous watercolor illustrations and romping verse, the authors present a candid and affectionate celebration of families of all shapes and sizes. Here are sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, grannies, grandads, uncles and aunts, houses and homes, habits and traditions, history, hugs, struggles, and love. Full-color.

Genres: Poetry, Picture Books

Hardcover

First published November 4, 1998

About the author

Catherine Anholt and her husband Laurence Anholt are a husband-and-wife team who have worked together on more than 60 picture books, published all over the world in more than 17 different languages. Their picture books – including the Chimp and Zee series – have won numerous awards and have been featured on television and radio. Catherine grew up in the Cotswolds as one of a family of eight. After a brief nursing career, she found her true vocation as an artist at Falmouth Art School, leaving to take an MA at the Royal College of Art in London.

Reviews

[Luvy Webb · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of poems is about different families. The poems all deal with families and where they live, size, parents, siblings, noise, grandparents, moods, family trees, and much more. This author looked at families from different points of view and that somethings are similar and other things are different. But it is all okay because families are families.

[Karen Dransfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely book full of different poems about families and the people in them. A great book to share and reuse with a family unit. Delightful art work of all sorts of families in all sorts of places.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book !

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my kids favorite and I don't know why. I think they liked something with more of a story which this book lacks but I enjoyed the rhyming verses.

[Colleen]

Familes on the Go! unit 3
Leveled Books - Advanced

[Gemma Fasheun · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very nice book from which young kids can learn new words. I recommended for all the parents in the world with small kids.