My Family category: 4877 books

What happens when a family has nowhere to live? Some families have lost their houses because of financial difficulties or natural disasters and don't have the resources to find new homes. Their lives become a struggle to meet their basic needs. Some live in shelters, some with friends or relatives,...

You’ve heard all about it in recent years – the number of stay-at-home dads in North America just keeps climbing, gender roles are evolving, and the traditional family unit will never be the same. The media loves to spit out endless stats and numbers, while trying to make sense of the broader...

A sensitive picture book to help ease the anxieties of foster children aged 4 to 10 entering placement. In A Different Home, Jessie tells us her story of being placed in foster care. At first she is worried and has lots of questions. The new home is not like her old home -- she has a different...

'So your grandchild has Asperger Syndrome (AS)? You might have noticed that some of his behaviour is a bit different to most kids, that he becomes stressed when faced with change and he doesn't cope well with criticism or failure.' This book offers a fun and accessible introduction for the grandparent...

New book in the BODY WORKS series - straightforward body facts paired with very silly illustrations - for children aged 6 to 9. Ideal for both home and school use. My Healthy Body is a fact-filled book about healthy habits - perfect for instilling the need to look after both mind and body in...

Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Nazi-occupied Vienna and the persecution of Jewish families like theirs. Shanghai is a strange place for a young European girl, but it is one of the few places in the world to offer Jews refuge from the Holocaust. After the bombing...

Greeting people was quite difficult for the character in this short story. He hides behind his parents as shyness takes over. But then a well humored encounter helps him realize that it’s not that difficult after all. To see more of our kids material, visit us at www.icharacter.org

Sofie Koborg Brøsen is eleven years old and, like other children of her age, goes to a mainstream school, loves reading comics and being with her family and her cat, Teddy. But Sofie is not the same as everyone else - she has autism spectrum disorder. Fed up with being misunderstood by her classmates,...

When you lose the most important person in your life, it's hard to believe you can continue without them. It can take months or even years to deal with the grief and even then it never truly goes away; you only learn to manage it. In You Can Survive This, M.H. Lee draws upon the personal experience...

For fans of the musical Hamilton, here is a stunning picture book biography about Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's extraordinary wife and an important figure in her own right. We all know the story of scrappy Alexander Hamilton and his rise in American...

ABC for Me: ABC Love is here to help you teach young children important concepts like love, acceptance, and affection while also teaching them the alphabet. It's never too early to start teaching your baby the importance of love. ABC for Me: ABC Love pairs each letter of the alphabet with...

The Truth About Divorce explains the process of a divorce to children in a very honest and positive light while also helping them work through the emotions that occur as a result of divorce.  This book will bring them comfort, acceptance, and understanding during a very difficult time in their life.

Artfully illustrated by Alexandra Conn with a foreword by Bridget Fonda: An innovative and colorful collection of seventy healthy, nutritious, and delicious original recipes for kids of all ages, from one of the front-runners of healthy eating The Supernatural Kids Cookbook, the first in a...

Candace Fleming and illustrator Boris Kulikov pair up to tell a fun story about a real submarine inventor in Papa's Mechanical Fish Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because...