![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist’s uncles live in an apartment and he lives with his parents and grandparents.Ĭonflict makes its not-so-subtle entrance into the text when the family plans a big anniversary celebration for the protagonist’s grandparents. The family highlighted is white and the story is set in a city. Unlike most books that represent lesbian and gay adults from the period, this one mentions the word “gay.” In this case she explores same-gender relationships from the first-person point-of-view of a child, Elly, who loves visiting her two uncles. ![]() My Two Uncles, like her other titles, seeks to write into children’s books realities too frequently absent from them. Vigna has authored a long list of social issue picture books including Black Like Kyra, White Like Me, I Wish Daddy Didn’t Drink So Much, Mommy and Me By Ourselves Again, and Saying Goodbye to Daddy. Judith Vigna’s My Two Uncles was published by Albert Whitman & Company in was published in 1995. ( Leave a comment ) Judith Vigna’s My Two Uncles (1995). ![]()
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