Welcome to the Family

This book takes one element of The Great Big Book of Families ? the arrival of new members into a family ? and explores all the different ways a baby or child can become part of the clan, including natural birth within a nuclear family, adoption, fostering, same-sex parents, and many other aspects of bringing babies or children home. Following in the approach of the Great Big Book series, Welcome to the Family includes 12 double spreads, each exploring one theme, and lots of humor, jokes, and fun along the way. A unique information book, Welcome to the Family spreads an important and positive message: every family is different and every family is equally valid and special, no matter how or when their children arrive.

Mary Hoffman is the internationally acclaimed author of nearly 100 books for children, ranging from picture books to teenage fiction. Her book Amazing Grace has become a picture book classic that, along with its sequels, has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. The author of The Color of Home and An Angel Just Like Me, as well as the hugely successful Great Big Book series, she lives in Oxfordshire, U.K. Ros Asquith has been a cartoonist for The Guardian for 20 years and has written over 60 books for children and teenagers. In addition to the Great Big Book series with Mary Hoffman, she wrote and illustrated It’s Not Fairy and is the author of the Teenage Worrier series and Letters from an Alien Schoolboy, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. She lives in London.