Me and My Family Tree
Me and My Family Tree
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Annotation: Using a family tree, a child explains how her brother, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are related to her.
Genre: [World history]
 
Reviews: 4
Catalog Number: #167557
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 2018
Edition Date: 2018 Release Date: 09/18/18
Illustrator: Cable, Annette,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: Publisher: 1-524-76851-0 Perma-Bound: 0-7804-2232-5
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-1-524-76851-5 Perma-Bound: 978-0-7804-2232-2
Dewey: 929.20973
LCCN: 2018032807
Dimensions: 24 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist

As she cuts out pictures of relatives to glue on a family tree, a little girl explains who everyone is and how they are related to her. The heart of the book is a double-page spread showing her tree full of family faces. Next, in a section illustrated with drawings of family snapshots, she tells how she came to be a part of the family. Alhough librarians may wince at the last page: a family tree with blank circles so that children can fill in their own pictures, this simple, cheerful book will be an asset to preschool and primary-grade units on the family. (Reviewed August 1999)

Horn Book

This very simple introduction to family trees follows a little girl as she draws pictures of her family, arranges them on a tree, and explains their relationships to one another. One aunt is part of an interracial family, and a grandfather is in a wheelchair. The illustrations are clear and colorful, and the final page has a sample family tree for readers to use or copy.

Kirkus Reviews

PLB 0-517-70967-8 Me And My Family Tree (32 pp.; $13.00; PLB $14.99; May; 0-517-70966-X; PLB 0-517-70967-8): For children who are naturally curious about the people who care for them (most make inquiries into family relationships at an early age), Sweeney explains, with the assistance of a young narrator, the concept of a family tree. Photographs become understandable once the young girl learns the relationships among family members; she wonders what her own family tree will look like when she marries and has children. A larger message comes at the end of this story: not only does she have a family tree, but so does everyone in the world. Cable's drawings clearly define the process of creating a family tree; she provides a blank tree so children can start on their own geneaology.(Picture book. 5-7)

School Library Journal

K-Gr 3-A little girl draws a picture of her family tree, adding her brother, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins as she repeats the phrase, Theyre all part of my family tree. After she completes the project, she asks, can you guess how I came to be? and explains that her grandparents had her mother and aunt, and that her mother and father had her brother and then her. Despite its simple text, this book fails to make the concept clear. The term family tree is not explained, so children never fully understand why the narrator is sticking pictures of her family onto her drawing of a tree. A sudden statement near the end of the book, Think of it! Everyone in the world has a family tree, seems to come out of the blue. Run-of-the-mill illustrations include scenes of relatives engaged in daily activities and pictures that represent the childs drawings of her family tree. One appealing double-page spread of the entire clan at a picnic in a park features a large tree that is sure to make confused young readers ask, Is that the family tree? A disappointing attempt at introductory genealogy.Ginny Gustin, Santa Monica Public Library, CA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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Word Count: 236
Reading Level: 1.5
Interest Level: K-3
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 1.5 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 49254 / grade: Lower Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:1.8 / points:1.0 / quiz:Q31217
Lexile: 400L
Guided Reading Level: K
Fountas & Pinnell: K

Where am I on my family tree? A beloved bestseller that shows children how to understand their place among their relatives, now refreshed with new art from Emma Trithart.


     Who is part of your family? How are they related to you? 

     In this edition of Me and My Family Tree, with new art by Emma Trithart, a young girl uses simple language, her own childlike drawings, and diagrams to explain how the members of her family are related to each other and to her. Clear, colorful, detailed artwork and a fill-in family tree in the back help make the parts of the family--from siblings to grandparents to cousins--understandable to very young readers.


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