A girl describes her relatives from Great-grandmother Allegra through aunts and uncles to her cousins and how she came to have her own special place on the family tree.
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A Belgian team explores the question of where an adoptee fits on the family tree. Vibrant, exaggerated portraits, one per spread, bubble with affection and humor, but overall the execution is bumpy. The text facing each portrait feels flat and utilitarian, serving primarily as a brief r sum for each relative: "Aunt Alice is an artist. When she isn't painting, she does yoga--that's all kinds of stretchy exercises." A family tree, pictured on both opening and closing spreads, is meant to help keep the many relatives straight, but since there's no plot or character development, readers will likely forget them; and the instruction on every spread, "If you're having trouble following me, take a look at the family tree," quickly grows tiresome. The adoption itself is handled cavalierly. The narrator, introduced as an infant in the final two spreads, states simply that she "no longer had a family" in her native land, and though she is darker-skinned than her adoptive parents, the text never addresses the interracial nature of the adoption. Readers will be better off with a host of other titles that handle both adoption and interracial families in greater depth. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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This review is from: Family Tree (Hardcover)
Family tree traces a family of circus performers from the matriarch to the child speaking. The illustration of the family tree is reverse to what most think of, the great grandmother is at the top of the tree and the child is one of the first branches by the trunk. The child is black in a white family tree and the only mention of the childs biological family is that the child no longer has a family in the country far away. It does stress where the child belongs in the family tree. The illustrations are colorful and fun, the story is a fun read with the encouragement to refer back to the family tree illustration at the beginning of the book. It does handle the concept of dads brother being the childs uncle, family structure is easier with reference to the family tree.
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