Charlotte Belliere is a teacher and children's author who loves to tell extraordinary stories about seemingly ordinary people. She lives in Brussels, Belgium. Ian de Haes is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer with a background in bookselling. He is the illustrator of numerous picture books, combining digital and traditional mediums to create his warm and luminous illustrations. He lives in Brussels, Belgium. Katy Lockwood-Holmes studied French and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She works in publishing and lives in Edinburgh, UK.
When it's time to play Families, the children discover not every family is like theirs. Excitedly, they share what their families look like: playing with noisy siblings, or having toys to themselves; families with two busy working mums or those with a dad and no mum; children who live with their grandparents or stepsiblings, and more. The children are full of questions -- Do you miss your mum? How many houses do you have? Why don't you look like your parents? -- and accepting of the answers. Because their families aren't all the same, but they are all awesome! In this bright, inclusive picture book young readers are offered a frank, funny and childlike perspective on diverse family structures, showing that there are many ways to be a family.