(2) K-3 Illustrated by Vera B. Williams & Chris Raschka. Foster child Lester finally has a real family in Daddy Albert, Daddy Rich, and their dog Wincka. But sleeping alone makes Lester anxious. While the text takes its time in developing and solving this crisis, the pleasures of familyhood dot the narrative and provide texture. In their watercolors, Williams and Raschka engage the matter-of-fact intimacy of the boy with his gay dads.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2016

(3) K-3 Translated by Liliana Valenzuela. Rosa anxiously awaits the birth of her cousin. She ruminates about how life is always changing: she'll grow up and move away from home. Through it all, one comforting constant will be her mother's red chair covered in roses. The soothing, rhythmic story, accurately translated into Spanish, is illustrated with vivid watercolors that display the family's warmth. Concurrently published in English.

Reviewer: Alissa C. Salamone

(3) K-3 Rosa anxiously awaits the birth of her cousin. She ruminates about how life is always changing: she'll grow up and move away from home. Through it all, one comforting constant will be her mother's red chair covered in roses. The soothing, rhythmic story is illustrated with vivid watercolors that display the family's warmth. Concurrently published in Spanish.

Reviewer: Alissa C. Salamone

(1) K-3 A series of poems tenderly convey two sisters' resilience and vulnerability in the face of parental absence. The girls' father is in prison, and their mother must work long hours for minimal pay. Black-and-white pencil sketches enhance the poems' emotion, culminating in a joyous wordless three-page sequence when the girls' father returns home. Colored-pencil portraits open and close the book.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2001