A board book that depicts the everyday lives of children with two moms. “When I open my eyes each morning, I see my smiling dads,” it begins. While the first-person text reads as if it were a single child narrating the whole, however, the illustrations show a different family for each spread. This may be disorienting at first, though ultimately it’s good to see images of families of varied racial and ethnic identities.
The families in these books all wear very stylish clothes (not surprising, given illlustrator Izak Zenou’s background as a leading fashion illustrator) and seem well off— two of the dads buy organic kale at the farmer’s market, for example. This may resonate more for some families than others. (Remember that LGBTQ couples with children are almost twice as likely as non-LGBTQ peers to have incomes near the poverty line, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute.)
This book and its mom variation, My Two Moms and Me, are also almost identical in concept to two other existing board book pairs about children with same-sex parents: Lesléa Newman’s Mommy, Mama, and Me
