With this bright, rhyming picture book, parents and teachers can easily and naturally start talking with young children about genealogy and extended family. A young bear narrator introduces her grandma, grandpa, uncle, auntie, mommy, daddy, sister, brother, and cousins, and describes all the special things they do. Each double-page spread sports a boldly lettered, short phrase (e.g., "Taste the fish my uncle brings") and a brilliantly colored, well-designed scene (the uncle fishing in a stream). At the end of the book, all the family members and their respective talents show up at a birthday party for the newest member of the family. The last spread is a family tree--a portrait of the whole family sitting on different branches of a tree. The watercolor, pen-and-ink, and crayon illustrations are bright and busy, just like this bear family. Kathy Broderick