How do families live together, and why are they sometimes apart? This
profound and moving book will inspire reflection and conversation about
what unites us and what makes us distinct individuals.
Colombian creator Dipacho explores the many ways we live with other
people--or, at times, apart from them--with striking illustrations of
the jabiru, the largest member of the stork family of birds. In spare,
poetic text and stunning watercolors, Dipacho honors family togetherness
as well as families whose members choose to live apart, or are separated
by circumstances. Moving spreads pay tribute to family members who have
died, and those just born. This ingeniously conceived book gives equal
weight to the conventional and the unconventional arrangements in which
we live, sparking conversations about what it means to be a family. The
book ends with informational back matter about the fascinating jabiru
stork, grounding it in the world of facts.