The Biggest Book on Families

"...This book is an important tool for understanding and accepting diversity, as well as for helping every child explore what might be happening in the world they live in alongside their own unique world."

“When I first held _The Biggest Book About Families_ in my hands, I was truly thrilled.”

“When words fail and ideas run dry, _The Biggest Book About Families_ is here to help you out. How many times have you wondered how you can talk to your child about diversity and what happens outside their own familiar environment?”

“I’ve literally put it in my heart and in a good spot so that my child can pick it up whenever they want, look at it and think.”

"...Reading this book, every child will recognise their own family—large or small, funny or serious, happy, boisterous or more low-key—as well as the families of their friends and classmates..."

"...the book addresses, in a very sweet yet clear way, the differences a child might notice not only in the structure and members of a family but also in everyday life."

"...‘The Greatest Book on Families’ is a tool in our hands that we must make the most of. Even if you, reading this now, feel that your family is different – just as mine is, for that matter – don’t feel bad. I’m sure you’ll find your place within this book. You’ll become one of us! Part of yet another unique, wonderful family!!!”

"...How wonderful can a book be that speaks so simply and clearly about difference!"

"...Entertaining, educational, optimistic, realistic; a book that presents the diversity of our world without preaching. Wonderful."

One of the 10 best books of 2016 according to Kokkini Alepou!

"...No two families are the same, just as no two people are the same. Anything is possible for every family, and we must accept this difference that is so similar, because what we seek is the same. Love!"

"...an excellent portrayal of today’s reality, aimed at people willing to discuss difference and to accept and understand multiculturalism and the now infinite forms of family upbringing and social integration within a constantly expanding whole."

"...The interesting point this book makes is that every family has the right to embrace the culture it wishes, to have its own customs, and the structure it deems appropriate – rather than what others deem proper. The child learns that every family is different and that this is not a bad thing. They therefore become more open-minded, which in the future will help them to be more tolerant of views and desires different from their own."

"We read it – I read it to myself, I read it to them, and they read it to each other. And in the end, what I remembered was something I’d read by Kazantzakis: ‘Love humanity, for you are part of it!’

"..._The Biggest Book About Families_ by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith, starting from the premise that the one essential and irreplaceable ingredient for a family to exist and function is love, describes all the possible variations of family structure. A book that is a pleasure to read and particularly useful for sparking wide-ranging family discussions."

"If nothing else, children’s publications have finally begun to break down taboos in the Greece of 2016, which is fearful of difference, by speaking of – tangible – diversity. The diverse families that have emerged in recent decades – along with the upheavals in social stereotypes that they bring – are the best way to start a taboo conversation.”

"...The book teaches us or reminds us, with humour and sensitivity, through dozens of examples, that no two families are the same. That there are families that are large, small, happy, sad, rich, poor, quiet, boisterous, angry, cheerful, stressed or relaxed. That there are potentially millions of families. And that most of them are sometimes a bit of all of these things. And much more!..."