Customer Reviews

King and King and Family

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We hate this book and are getting rid of it. We thought it would be great - two dads adopting a kid. What could be better? It actually reads more like 2 dads stealing a child from the jungle. Yuck!

This is one of my favorite children's books. It is a fun adventure tale with very cool drawings.

In response to some criticism that the princess in the story is not acquired properly, I would just say that it is a fairy tale! Not everything has to be real. And they do send in the proper paperwork, so some attempt is made to show you don't just get to keep children you find in the jungle without telling anyone.

Since my children have a very traditional looking family I think it's nice for them to grow up knowing ours isn't the only option. One thing about the drawings (which I do love), though, is they are very complex for very little kids. My son finds them more interesting as he gets older. I recommend this book for gay and straight families alike.

While I would have preferred a more straightforward way for them to find a child (or perhaps for the orphan that the two Kings find to be a baby instead of a child since to me it seemed more like she was a runaway), this is still a worthy addition to this series.

I bought this for my "niece" (our friend's child who refers to my partner and I as "Uncle Paul and Uncle Bryan") for her third birthday, since she's enjoyed the first book for the past year as one of her more frequently requested "night-night" storytime books (along with the Curious George series and "The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish" by Neil Gaiman).

The illustrations are fantastic paintings with lots of colorful images of various animals and their children throughout a tropical environment that the Kings see on their honeymoon.

I would recommend it to any parent with an open mind.

A very disappointing sequel. The tile implies that it will be about the Kings' creating a family, but most of the book focuses on their honeymoon. When the Kings' return from their travels they find a child who hid out in their luggage - then they proceed to adopt her (how about a search for her bio parents?). This book is fuel to the right wing fire and doesn't represent any of the creative ways LGBT people have created families.

King and King and Family is a sweet and fun tale that shows us the importance of families, loving relationships, and having the ability to nurture love within a family. Told in a very young-child age appropriate way.

my 2 kids love this book and read it over and over again... of course they also love the prequel king and king every family should have this book to promote diversity. great book

I do like this sequel to King & King!!! Because They find a child the same way they find love. Without lectures, or educational purposes.
This book is even more joyfull and colourfull than part 1! Full of little jokes and very cute animals! Simply lovely!!!

Some critics seem to think this book is a how-to manual about building a family. Nonsense! It is a fictional account of how one child was kidnapped, but it's okay because the kidnappers are gay!

I would have liked to see more about how the Kings' friends reacted when it turned out they brought a child back from the honeymoon - something like "gosh, we didn't even know you were pregnant" or "no wonder you 'had' to get married!" There is a lot of room for humor in this situation.

It is boring and has no point. It obviously was created with an agenda. An agenda that purely consists of trying to get the homosexaul agenda out there.