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Massachusetts Must Read Title: 17th Annual Mass Book Awards *CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book* *CCBC Choices Selection* This warm, engaging story, which unfolds entirely through the conversation of two adopted sisters, was inspired by the author's own daughters, whom she overheard talking about how adoption made them "real sisters" even though they have different birth parents and do not look alike. "I liked how they took care of one another in their pretend-play scenario about climbing a mountain," Lambert says, "and I loved how they also took care of one another's feelings as they talked about adoption. REAL SISTERS PRETEND captures these interactions perfectly and movingly. Told with simple words and playful illustrations, this book touches on the topics of adoption, two moms, and multiracial family life. Modern families can look very different from the nuclear families of yesteryear, but as Lambert says in the book's introduction, "No matter how a family comes to be, the most important thing is for everyone to feel loved, safe, and cared for." REAL SISTERS PRETEND is a great vehicle for sharing that love and reassurance. Fountas & Pinnell Level L
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Megan Dowd Lambert (www.megandowdlambert.com) , Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature at Simmons University, is the author of Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See (Charlesbridge 2015) , which introduces the Whole Book Approach to storytime that she developed in association with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She received a 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for her first picture book, A Crow of His Own (Charlesbridge 2015, illustrated by David Hyde Costello) . Her second title for young readers, Real Sisters Pretend (Tilbury House 2016, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell) , is an adoption story inspired by two of her daughters, and it was named a 2017 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and a Must Read title by the 17th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. The mother of seven children ages 1-22 in a multiracial, queer, adoptive, blended family, Megan writes and reviews for Kirkus and The Horn Book, and she is hard at work on new books for young readers, including the sequel to A Crow of His Own, a new picture book called A Kid of Their Own, illustrated by Jessica Lanan, which Charlesbridge will publish in February 2020.
