A FAMILY LOOKS LIKE LOVE

A heartening picture book about a young pup who looks different from her siblings and ultimately learns that love, rather than how you look, is what makes a family.

Sutton Button has always looked different from her family. While her siblings had short, stout legs, Sutton's legs were long like noodles. And while her siblings had scruffy, yellow fur, Sutton was a tricolor puppy with soft fur.

But when others don't believe that Sutton and her siblings are actually related, Sutton starts to wonder if she really belongs in her family at all--until she realizes that her and her family are the same in all the most important ways and that love, rather than what you look like, is what makes a family.

With heartwarming text and adorable illustrations, A Family Looks Like Love is a story about the enduring power of love and teaches readers that family comes in all shapes and sizes.

Kaitlyn Wells is an award-winning journalist who writes about pets and style for Wirecutter, a leading product review site owned by The New York Times. She is also co-chair of the Black@NYT employee resource group, and her platform focuses on inclusion and the development of underrepresented voices at The Times. In 2020, she received top awards from the Cat Writers' Association of America and the Dog Writers Association of America, as well as a Publisher's Award from The Times. She lives in New York City with her husband and two rambunctious pets.

Sawyer Cloud is a freelance artist living in Madagascar, her native country. Though she didn't have the chance to study illustration in a proper art school, she has always been passionate with visual art and learned the illustration industry through personal research and work experience. She still lives on the same island where she grew up, along with her family and her two pets, Arya the dog and Potter the cat.