{"id":20169,"date":"2013-09-08T19:48:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T23:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2013-09-08T19:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T23:48:24","slug":"review-of-in-our-mothers-house-by-patricia-polacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20169","title":{"rendered":"Review of In Our Mothers’ House, by Patricia Polacco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Our Mothers\u2019 House
\nBy Patricia Polacco<\/p>\n

Philomel Books, 2009. 48 pages.<\/p>\n

This is a warm and wonderful book about a nontraditional family. The point isn\u2019t that the family has two mothers. The point is that they have a lot of love.<\/p>\n

Told from the perspective of the first adopted child, we hear about all the loving times in their big house, which hosts family gatherings and block parties and neighborhood festivals. The family has a black girl, an oriental boy and a red-haired Irish child, so they are diverse in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

Patricia Polacco is a good storyteller, and she makes a story of this family. There\u2019s lots of hugging in all the pictures, and people of all ages having fun.<\/p>\n

There is one exception. The one person on the block who doesn\u2019t like them (It doesn\u2019t specify why, except that she says, \u201cI don\u2019t appreciate what you two are.\u201d), Mrs. Lockner, is on the cartoonish side. But mostly it\u2019s about family togetherness, complete with cooking, costumes, parties, special events. Patricia Polacco manages to tell these retrospective stories without stepping too far on the side of sentimentality.<\/p>\n

Your kids will meet families like this. I appreciate that the book never makes a big deal about there being two mothers or mixed races in this family. It just tells about two marvelous people and the loving household they built.<\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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