![]() ![]() ![]() When I spotted this little picture book, I just had to read it. Stella would be the only one without a mother at the Mother's Day party.Īn adorable picture book about a little girl with two fathers and her worries about Mother's Day. If Stella doesn't have a mom to bring to the Mother's Day celebration, what will she do? She figures it out in the end, and shows her classmates that parents aren't the only people who can make a family unit.Įveryone else had a mother. This book isn't so much about acceptance as it is about coming up with a solution to a problem. I especially liked how Howie (who has two moms) was already wondering what he was going to do for Father's Day! The pictures tell the story as much as the text does. ![]() The illustrations are really cute, although the e-book edition I read was awful (the text for each picture was a page ahead, so until I figured that out, I was a bit lost when are the people who convert these things going to start paying more attention?). That's not the book's fault, though it's society's. It's great that Stella ends up showing her classmates that men can do all of the stereotypical "motherly" things, but she shouldn't have had to. Apparently, dads can't make lunches or read bedtime stories or kiss boo-boos. All the little kids in Stella's class have been so indoctrinated by the idea of what moms do and what dads do that their thinking has become very rigid along stereotypical gender lines. ![]()
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