![]() A duck, a bee, a dog, a rabbit, a cat, a mouse, a donkey, a pig, a frog, a rooster, and a horse all fail similarly, spread by spread. A sad-looking ram insists, “DADA!” his lamb baas back. ![]() One family.”Ī visually striking, engaging picture book that sends the message that everyone counts.Ī succession of animal dads do their best to teach their young to say “Dada” in this picture-book vehicle for Fallon.Ī grumpy bull says, “DADA!” his calf moos back. ![]() This inclusive spirit supports the text’s culminating assertion that “One is one and everyone. ![]() Interracial families are included, as are depictions of men with their arms around each other, and a Sikh man wearing a turban. While text never directs the art to depict diverse individuals and family constellations, Gomez does just this in her illustrations. ![]() One family.” Gomez’s richly colored pictures clarify and expand on all that the text lists: For “six,” a picture showing six members of a multigenerational family of color includes a line of laundry with six items hanging from it outside of their windows, as well as the painting of a six-legged butterfly that a child in the family is creating. Shannon’s text is delivered in spare, rhythmic, lilting verse that begins with one and counts up to 10 as it presents different groupings of things and people in individual families, always emphasizing the unitary nature of each combination. A playful counting book also acts as a celebration of family and human diversity. ![]()
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