One Family by George Shannon6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a quiet vision of a world in which every family is accepted. Her scenes of city life are imbued with warmth, comfort, and a kind of universality-there’s little obvious luxury or poverty. Gomez’s figures have a pleasing, doll-like look, with round heads whose features convey friendliness. One hand of cards./ One family”), Shannon’s blank verse brings home the idea of unity in multiplicity. Linking them to ways of counting groups of familiar things (“One is five./ One bunch of bananas. One team of horses./ One family.” Gomez’s ( Besos for Baby) combinations of families from one to 10 present lots of possibilities-grandparents and children, fathers in turbans, single-parent families, families whose members don’t look alike at all. An Asian mother and child romp on hobby horses before bedtime: “One is two./ One pair of shoes. ![]() Shannon’s ( Hands Say Love) message is clear: no matter how many people there are in a family, what color they are, or what ages they are, they’re still a family. ![]()
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