The book Heather has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman is a book about a little girl with two moms. She is perfectly happy with her life until she joins a play group in which the other kids talk about their dads. When she realizes she doesn't have a dad, she gets upset. However the teacher has all of the kids draw pictures of their families which show how different each one is and explains that all families are unique. I thought this book was very graphic especially when they explain about how Heather was conceived. Also, this book was a little too cookie cutter for me because every family in her play group was not the typical. One has two dads, one was divorced, one a single parent, etc. I know that there are many families that may represent these different types, it was just a little too convenient that all of them happened to be represented in her play group. I am not sure what age group should read this book. I would lean towards older middle school which is interesting though because Heather is probably around 5 years old in the book which makes me wonder if they were trying to target it towards younger children.
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