Picture books: families

Follows a group of family members and friends through the course of a day as they learn the importance of all things great and small.

"Cau�a and Ina�e are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapaj�os River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat—even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cau�a and Ina�e realize they’ve left behind something important: their pet tortoise, Titi! Unlike turtles,...

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

"One morning after breakfast, Babys big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba's bungalow in the next village. He'll have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds, and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. But what he doesn't realize is that his very cute, very curious baby sibling has stowed away on his bicycle."--Provided by publisher.

Describes a sequence of events a family follows to help the children get ready for bed.

To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.

Soon after a young girl arrives in Japan, she, her grandmother, her aunties, and some cousins celebrate cultural traditions together while visiting a bath house.

Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.

While living in a relocation camp during the World War II, a young Japanese American boy receives a message of hope from his grandfather.