What a Family!

Isadora, R. (2006). What a Family! Illus. Rachel Isadora. Portland, Oregon: Putnam Juvenile.

Annotation: This is a children's picture book that goes through a young boy's family tree and he can see how people were alike and different and where he got some of his traits.

Genre: Culturally diverse picture book

Grade Level: K-3rd

Readers who would like this: This would be a cute book to do a project in school or even for a little kid to read with their parents.

Response/Rating: I give this book a 4. I think the illustrations were cute and the idea of the book was really neat. A lot of grown-ups like to do family trees and now there is a book that is simple for little kids to understand what a family tree is.

Question: Do you know why your hair is the color it is?

Reading Strategy:
a) Thompkins #40
b) This strategy is a visual activity where students think more deeply about the elements of the story and moves beyond literal comprehension.
c) This matches well with this book, because students can construct their own family tree and they can see where they came from or they can guess what their family tree would look like based on Ollie's family tree in the book.