Molly's Family

Molly's Family by Garden, Nancy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374350024.

What makes a family? The members of Ms. Marstons kindergarten class are cleaning and decorating their room for the upcoming Open School Night. Molly and Tommy work on drawing pictures to put on the walls. Molly draws her family: Mommy, Mama Lu, and her puppy, Sam. But when Tommy looks at her picture, he tells her its not of a family. "You cant have a mommy and a mama," he says. Molly doesnt know what to think; no one else in her class has two mothers. She isnt sure she wants her picture to be on the wall for Open School Night. Mollys dilemma, sensitively explored in words and art, shows readers that even if a family is different from others, it can still be happy, loving, and real.