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Garden, Nancy

Molly's Family

32 pp. | Farrar | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-374-35002-7 $$16.00

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sharon Wooding. When Molly draws a picture of her Mommy and her Mama Lu, classmate Tommy objects: "That's not a family." Crisis, small-scaled, ensues, as does a comforting chat with the mommies, and a word on "all kinds of families" from the teacher. The story, illustrated with warm but generic colored-pencil drawings, is overly purposive and bland, but it is a straightforward address to the virtues of gay parenting.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004