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Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection

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City Life

Creator

Jeannelle Ferreira; illustrated by J. Cecelia Haytko

Date

Published 2010

Format

Book

A picture book about a child with two mothers moving through ordinary urban activities.

Two mothersUrban lifeEveryday representationPrint-on-demand booksSmall-press publishing2010s picture books
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Overview

City Life is locally cataloged as a 2010 picture book by J. Cecelia Haytko and Jeannelle Ferreira about a girl with two mothers and the activities of an ordinary city day. Public product records identify the title with ISBN 9781607012993, a 36-page paperback format, and a May 2010 publication date. They also preserve a short description of carefree, car-free urban activities. The main caution is bibliographic: sources vary between Books for All Families, Prime Books, and Sean Wallace as publisher or imprint fields. The record therefore treats the item as identifiable but copy-sensitive.[1][2][3][4][5]

Everyday City Life

The local catalog describes bedtime, bicycle rides, shopping for vegetables, and museum visits. Public product summaries add a broader phrase about inclusive, car-free urban activities. Together, those sources suggest a picture book in which the two-mother household is part of daily urban movement rather than a topic requiring explanation.[1][2][3][5]

Later Small-Press Record

The 2010 date places City Life after the early Alyson and New Victoria titles that shaped much of the first wave of LGBTQ-family picture books. Its public trail is less institutional: retail metadata, print-on-demand notes, and ISBN-based listings carry most of the evidence. That later small-press context is part of the item's value.[2][4][5][1]

Publisher Field Variation

City Life is easy to identify by ISBN but less easy to describe bibliographically. Walmart Business lists Sean Wallace in the publisher field; Bol and Books Express attach the book to Books for All Families; AbeBooks listings also show Prime Books and Books for All Families. The held copy can resolve whether these are publisher, imprint, distributor, or vendor metadata differences.[2][3][4][5]

Timeline

  1. 2010Publication datePublic product records date City Life to May 2010.[2][3]
  2. 2010ISBN recordMultiple vendors identify the paperback with ISBN 9781607012993 and 36 pages.[2][4][5]
  3. 2010Collection dateThe local catalog also dates the item to 2010 and records the two-mother city-life summary.[1]

Known Record

Public records converge on a 2010 paperback but differ on publisher-field wording.

2010

Paperback, ISBN 9781607012993

Product records list 36 pages, English language, square format, and a May 2010 date.

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Linked records

Later everyday family stories

Not Ready Yet!

Both records use ordinary activities as the setting for same-sex-parent family representation.

References [1][2]

Two-mother domestic routine

Oh the Things Mommies Do!

Both titles belong to the collection's later two-mother picture-book group centered on routine care and ordinary family life.

References [1][2]

Shared themes

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Mama Eat Ant, Yuck!

A limited small-press picture book in which a baby's first repeated words come from an everyday mishap in a two-mother household.

Two mothers

The Many Colored Love / El amor de todos los colores

A bilingual Spanish-English picture book about Maite, Mama, Mami, and the many-colored force of family love.

Two mothers

Renee's Family

A Lulu picture book about a child with two mothers and a daycare community of many family forms.

Two mothers

The Child in the Mothers' Heart

A companion adoption-origin picture book about a child and two mothers.

Nearby dates

Published 2010

A Tale of Two Daddies

A VanitaBooks companion picture book using questions and everyday care to present a child with two fathers.

Local catalog records 2010

Children's Books with LGBT Themes

A self-published reference object that helps document how LGBTQ children's books were listed and aggregated.

Published 2010

Dad David, Baba Chris and Me

A British adoption and fostering resource book about Ben, his two adoptive fathers, and school bullying.

Published 2010

Daddy and Pop

A two-father family-making picture book connected to a small companion series on donor conception, surrogacy, and adoption.

Citation

City Life. Jeannelle Ferreira; illustrated by J. Cecelia Haytko. Books for All Families / Prime Books, 2010. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-108.

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Sources

Cover image from Walmart Business.

  1. Local catalog seed for City Life · catalog
  2. Walmart Business record for City Life · bookseller
  3. Bol record for City Life · bookseller
  4. AbeBooks ISBN record for City Life · bookseller
  5. Books Express record for City Life · bookseller
  6. ThriftBooks record for City Life · bookseller
  7. Research status index · internal