How We Love by Kati Douglas

How We Love

A Board Book

Kati Douglas, Ashley Jefferson

Abrams Appleseed · Print & ebook · December 2, 2025

From the ALA Stonewall Award–winning team Little Feminist comes a gorgeous photographic board book celebrating the many ways we can express love!

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Who it’s for
Real-family photographs show love through listening, kindness, bravery, and care across many kinds of families.
Themes
Expressing love, Family and belonging, Kindness and helping
Genres
Emotions, Alternative Families, Values & Virtues

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About this book

From the ALA Stonewall Award–winning team Little Feminist comes a gorgeous photographic board book celebrating the many ways we can express love! Love is listening even if there’s nothing to say. Love is working to fix things and trying another way.

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From award-winning indie publisher Little Feminist comes an engaging board book celebrating all the different ways love can be shown and enjoyed between friends, between siblings, and within many kinds of families (two moms, two dads, one parent, caretaker grandparents—it’s all love)! Bright and sturdy, How We Love is the perfect companion to We Are Little Feminists: Families, the first board book to ever win the ALA Stonewall Award. With stellar photography of real families, readers will see love in action as kids, their siblings, and their adoring adult caretakers share, listen, hug, dance, show kindness, demonstrate bravery, and step in to help their families and communities. The book also includes family discussion questions and a note for grownups on how to use this book with young children.

Love in Action

Real-family photographs show love through listening, kindness, bravery, and care across many kinds of families.

Come here for

  • Photographs of real families sharing, listening, hugging, and helping
  • Family discussion questions and a note for grownups

Expect

  • Love between friends, siblings, and family members
  • A board book with discussion questions for families

Where it sits

Emotions36%
Values & Virtues36%
Alternative Families34%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Stepfamilies
  • Alternative Families
  • Valentine's Day
  • Emotions
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  • Self-Esteem & Independence
  • Diversity & Culture
Authors
Kati Douglas, Ashley Jefferson
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Published
December 2, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Expressing love · Family and belonging · Kindness and helping
Reading lane
Stepfamilies