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What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too, and now there are almost as many kinds of families as colours of the rainbow - from a mum and dad or single parent to two mums or two dads, from a mixed-race family to children with different mums and dads, to families with a disabled member. Mary Hoffman takes a look through children's eyes at the wide varieties of family life: from homes, food, ways of celebrating, schools and holidays to getting around, jobs and housework, from extended families, languages and hobbies to pets and family trees - and she concludes that, for most people, their own family is the best one of all! With Ros Asquith's delightful pictures, this book takes a fresh, optimistic look at families of today.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Martinus3, Nicholas4, Martin5), third child of Martin Hoffman (232) and Beulah Murray, was born in New York City, September 26, 1795. He was in business with his father and brother. He married, October 28, 1830, at New Haven, Conn., Elizabeth Hale Oilman, daughter of Benjamin Ives Oilman and Hannah Robbins, and granddaughter of the Rev. Chandler Robbins, of Plymouth, Mass. She was born at Marietta, Ohio, April 3, 1800, and died at West Farms, Westchester Co., N. Y., October 22, 1874. Martin Hoffman and Elizabeth Hale Oilman had seven children; 850 Lindley Murray, born 1832; mar. Margaret Leggett (Mott) Ring. 851 Emily, bor n 1834; mar. John H. Stevens. 852 Martin, born in New York, July 2, 1836; died January 5, 853 Arthur Gilman, born 1839; mar. Katherine Stuart. 854 Matilda, born July 5, 1840; died May 28, 1842. 855 Leighton, born December 13, 1841; died July 2, 1857. 856 Serena, born March 21, 1843; died September 15, 1852. Martin Hoffman died at " Linwood," Mamaro-neck, N. Y., May 17, 1857, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. 507 Anna MARIA6 (Martin1, Nicolaes2, Martinus3, Nicholas4, Martin5), fourth child of Martin Hoffman (232) and Beulah Murray, was born March 5, 1797. She married, April 27, 1818, Anthony R. Livingston, son of John Livingston, of Oakhill, N. Y., and had seven children: 857 Beulah Murray Livingston, born 1819; mar. Edward J. C. Atterbury. 858 Mary Frances Livingston, born January 18, 1823; mar. June 2, 1852, Henry Rogers; no issue. 859 Lindley Hoffman Livingston, born 1826; mar. Alice Theresa Whittlesey. 860 Serena Livingston, born 1828; died young. 861 Athenia Livingston, bor n 1829; mar. i. James Bowen; no issue, ii. July 31, 1889, Judge Charles A. Peabody; no issue. 862 Albert Livingston, born at Athens, N. Y., ...
This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation. Because of the luck, hard work, and resourcefulness of her immigrant grandparents, Hoffman and her five siblings grew up in a middle-class home, healthy, well fed, and well educated. An American success story? Not quite-or at least not quite the standard version. The Hoffman children grew up as observant Jews in a heavily Catholic New Jersey suburb, as political progressives in a town full of Republicans, as readers in a school full of football players and their fans. As a young lesbian, Hoffman distanced herself from her parents, who didn't understand her choice, and from the Jewish community, with its organization around family and unquestioning Zionism. However, both she and her parents changed and evolved, and by the end of this engaging narrative, they have come to new understandings, of themselves and one another. Book jacket.
Big or small, similar or different-looking, there are all kinds of families. Celebrate diversity with this picture book for very young children about the many faces of contemporary families. Bright photographs by National Geographic photographer Shelley Rotner capture families having fun together, enjoying all the ways they are similar and different. Some families have one parent, and some have two; some have aunts and uncles and grandparents living with them. Some have adopted children, some have children born to them. Whether they live all together or far apart, families love and care for each other. Designed to showcase the wide variety of modern families and spur discussions about young readers' own family history, this beautiful picture book is a must-have for children beginning to learn about the world and the people around them.
“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France. “A work of art” (Dallas Morning News), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject…make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal of the beach read” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Frédérick “will only renew your commitment to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA TODAY).
Nellie and her little brother Gus discuss all kinds of families during a day at the zoo and dinner at home with their relatives afterwards.
To Grace, family has always meant her Ma, her Nana and her cat Paw-Paw, but in all her school reading books families have a mother and a father, a boy and a girl, and a dog and a cat. So when Papa invites her to visit him in the Gambia, she dreams of finding a family straight out of one of her story books. But, when she arrives, she finds that her father has a new family. She has a little sister and a baby brother, and even a dog, but the mother is the wrong one she thinks. Although she has a lovely time, she feels as though there isn't enough of her to go around and that she can't manage two families. It is her Nana who helps Grace realise that families are what you make them, just like stories. A warm and delightful follow-up to the international bestseller and modern classic, Amazing Grace, this is an important story for all families and children today.