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Renee's Family
Kris Jacobson
Published 2011
Book
A Lulu picture book about a child with two mothers and a daycare community of many family forms.
Overview
Renee's Family is locally cataloged as a 2011 picture book by Kris Jacobson. The local description introduces Renee, Mommy Kelley, and Mamma Katherine, then follows Renee into a daycare setting where children come from two-mother, two-father, and mother-father families. A public bibliography compiled by Randy Tarpey-Schwed lists the title as a 2011 Lulu.com picture book about two mothers. The record is therefore useful, but narrow: it documents an everyday child-care setting and a simple family-origin explanation, while the physical copy remains the authority for exact publication and image details.[1][3]
Daycare And Many Families
The local description places Renee's family within a daycare group rather than isolating it as an exception. Renee has two mothers, and the children around her have different family structures. That arrangement gives the item a modest but clear interpretive role: it connects a child's own family-origin story to a wider classroom or childcare vocabulary of many families.[1][3]
Family-Origin Language
The local record says the book explains that one of Renee's mothers carried her before she was born. That detail places the title near other child-facing books that explain how a family came to be. Because no page images or full public record were found for the exact item, this summary remains grounded in the local catalog rather than expanded into claims about the whole text.[1]
Thin Public Trail
The public evidence for this title is unusually lean. The COSMV checklist confirms the title, creator, year, Lulu.com imprint, and two-mother category, but it does not provide a cover, ISBN, page count, or detailed publication statement. That makes the item searchable and citable at a basic level, while leaving the material description to the held copy.[3][1]
Timeline
Known Record
The currently documented record is bibliography-level.
2011
Lulu.com picture book
Public bibliography evidence gives title, creator, date, publisher, and family category.
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Linked records
STORK M.I.A.
Both titles appear in the same public LGBT-parent bibliography as Lulu.com picture books from the early 2010s.
References [3]
Who's in a Family?
Both records use many-family framing, though Renee's Family appears to place that framing inside a daycare story.
Shared themes
The Child in the Mothers' Heart
A companion adoption-origin picture book about a child and two mothers.
Families, a Coloring Book
A Michael Willhoite coloring book that presents many family structures, including two mothers and two fathers.
Is Your Family Like Mine?
An early picture book in which a child with two mothers asks classmates what makes a family.
All Families Are Different
A nonfiction activity book that explains many family forms, including families with same-sex parents.
Nearby dates
A Tale of Two Mommies
A VanitaBooks companion picture book using questions and everyday care to present a child with two mothers.
ABCs with Keesha. My Family!
An alphabet and activity companion to the Keesha/My Family books for children of LGBTQ parents.
Donovan's Big Day
A two-mother wedding picture book centered on a child's ritual preparation and role as ring bearer.
I Love Ewe
A Lulu children's book using animal allegory to address same-sex love, prejudice, and adoption.
Citation
Renee's Family. Kris Jacobson. Lulu.com, 2011. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-098.
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Sources
- Local catalog seed for Renee's Family · catalog
- Research status index · internal
- Children's Books Portraying LGBT Parents · bibliography