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The worksheet said ""All About My Mom."" Otis read it three times. It still didn't fit. It asked about lipsticks and nail polish and pretty purses. Otis lives with G-Ma Jo. G-Ma Jo has dirt under her fingernails and a green gardening apron and a silver whistle she blows when dinner is ready. The worksheet doesn't have a box for any of that. So Otis does something quiet and brave. He takes out his green crayon. He crosses out the word MOM. And in big, proud letters - letters that take up the whole line and then some - he writes G-MA. Our Own Kind of Cozy is a tender, funny, fiercely loving picture book about kinship care, family pride, and the quiet courage it takes to cross out a word that was never yours and write the one that is. For children raised by grandparents, guardians, and the family members who showed up when it mattered - and for the G-Mas and G-Pas who know that some roots grow silver and strong. Inside this book your child will find: The very specific sting of a school activity that assumes every family looks the same G-Ma Jo - strong, funny, dirt-under-her-fingernails real, as a full and proud parental figure A child who moves from confused and heavy to quietly, completely proud A story that never asks Otis to explain his family, only to celebrate it Perfect for children ages 3-8, grandfamilies, kinship care families, school counselors, and any child who has ever needed to cross out the wrong word and write their own.

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