At My House What Makes a Family is Love
Dee Dee Walter-Goodspeed; illustrated by E. J. Koh
Published 2006
Book
An AuthorHouse picture book presenting many kinds of families, including two-mother and two-father households.
Overview
At My House What Makes a Family is Love is a 2006 AuthorHouse picture book by Dee Dee Walter-Goodspeed, with public bookseller records also crediting E. J. Koh. The local catalog describes a many-family structure that includes two mothers, two fathers, single parents, divorced and remarried parents, grandparent-led families, and foster families. Bookseller descriptions preserve the same central frame: families differ, and love is the connecting principle. The page is strongest as a series-member record in the collection's many-family group, documenting how self-published children's books addressed same-sex-parent households through broad affirmation rather than a single-identity plot.[1][2][3][4][5]
The Many-Family Frame
The book's structure is broad. The local catalog lists same-sex parents beside mother-father, single-parent, divorced, remarried, grandparent-led, and foster families. That approach is different from a story that centers one child with two mothers or two fathers. It presents same-sex-parent households as one part of a larger social vocabulary. In the collection, this helps trace a shift from explaining specific LGBTQ families toward classroom and household books that normalize variation through repeated examples.[1][2][3]
AuthorHouse And Access
The AuthorHouse imprint matters because this item is not a major trade-publisher title. Catalog and retail records show a 32-page paperback available through distributed bookseller channels, with the same ISBN preserved by Open Library and retailers. That kind of record helps explain how family-diversity books reached readers outside traditional children's publishing paths. The collection can use this item to show how self-publishing made room for direct, inclusive family language when institutional publishing support was uneven.[2][3][4][5]
Affirmation Language
Bookseller descriptions and the local catalog agree on the central claim: family form varies, but love is the defining relation. That wording is simple, and it can sound familiar because many family-diversity books use similar language. Its historical value comes from repetition across formats. When a self-published book names two mothers and two fathers inside a list of family forms, it contributes to a cumulative public vocabulary in which same-sex-parent households are ordinary examples rather than exceptional cases.[1][3][4][6]
Date And Metadata
The public record is useful but slightly uneven. Open Library and iMusic give June 12, 2006, while ThriftBooks lists an October 2006 release date. The responsible public treatment is to state the year and preserve the month-level conflict in internal notes. That small discrepancy is typical for print-on-demand records. It also reminds visitors that the collection is partly about bibliographic recovery: preserving modest books whose metadata survives through scattered library and retail traces.[2][3][4][6]
Timeline
- 2006PublicationOpen Library records the title as an AuthorHouse book published June 12, 2006.[2]
- 2006Retail metadataBookseller records preserve the ISBN, paperback format, and 32-page extent.[3][5]
- 2000sMany-family contentThe local catalog records a many-family structure including two-mother and two-father households.[1]
- 2010sBibliography contextFamily-resource bibliographies help place the title in the wider same-sex-parent picture-book field.[8]
Known Record Trail
Public records preserve one 2006 AuthorHouse paperback with minor month-level date variation.
2006
AuthorHouse paperback
Open Library and retail metadata preserve the ISBN and 32-page format.
2006
Month variation
Public sources split between June and October dates; the page uses the stable year.
2010s
Family-diversity bibliography
The title appears within broader LGBTQ-parent children's book lists.
Explore Connections
Browse direct links, shared themes, and nearby publication dates.
Linked records
The Family Book
Both books present many family forms, including same-sex-parent households, through broad child-facing affirmation.
Your Family, My Family
Both titles use a many-family structure rather than centering only one LGBTQ household.
ABC: A Family Alphabet Book
Both records show early-learning or concept-book forms being used for family diversity.
References [8]
Oh the Things Mommies Do!
Both titles sit near the self-published family-affirmation lane of the collection.
References [8]
Shared themes
All Families Are Different
A nonfiction activity book that explains many family forms, including families with same-sex parents.
What Matters Most
A self-published many-family picture book about a child learning that family is defined by care rather than structure.
Families, a Coloring Book
A Michael Willhoite coloring book that presents many family structures, including two mothers and two fathers.
When Grown-Ups Fall in Love
A numbered and signed preschool picture book about different adult couples and their children.
Nearby dates
Aitor tiene dos mamas
A Spanish edition of a Basque two-mother family story about school bullying, language, and public recognition.
Buster's Sugartime
A Postcards from Buster book tie-in connected to a public broadcasting dispute over two-mother family representation.
Emma and the Magic Moose
A fantasy picture book about a girl, a magic journey, and a return to her two mothers.
Evan's Beard
A photographic picture book about a child, facial hair, and two mothers, recorded in an LGBTQ-family book checklist.
Citation
At My House What Makes a Family is Love. Dee Dee Walter-Goodspeed; illustrated by E. J. Koh. AuthorHouse, 2006. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-070.
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Sources
Image from Open Library.
- Local collection catalog record for At My House What Makes a Family is Love · catalog
- Open Library ISBN record for At My House What Makes a Family is Love · library
- ThriftBooks listing for At My House What Makes a Family is Love · bookseller
- iMusic listing for At My House What Makes a Family is Love · bookseller
- Walmart listing for At My House What Makes a Family is Love · bookseller
- ebook.de listing for At My House What Makes a Family is Love · bookseller
- Children's Books Portraying LGBT Parents checklist · bibliography