Families
by Wyatt Cooper
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Dec 2025 on IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson.
The general take
Anderson Cooper reflects fondly on his father's book "Families," a memoir exploring the family experience across generations—from his father's impoverished upbringing in Depression-era Mississippi to the family he built with Anderson's mother and siblings. Cooper speaks about it with clear personal warmth, treating it as a meaningful document of family life and history.
About
Big or small, similar or different-looking, there are all kinds of families. Celebrate diversity with this picture book for very young children about the many faces of contemporary families. Bright photographs by National Geographic photographer Shelley Rotner capture families having fun together, enjoying all the ways they are similar and different. Some families have one parent, and some have two; some have aunts and uncles and grandparents living with them. Some have adopted children, some have children born to them. Whether they live all together or far apart, families love and care for each other. Designed to showcase the wide variety of modern families and spur discussions about young readers' own family history, this beautiful picture book is a must-have for children beginning to learn about the world and the people around them.
Who said what
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…anderson cooper discussing his father wyatt cooper's memoir about family history
“My dad wrote a book about two years before he died called Families. And it was a memoir about, he grew up, he grew up kind of poor in Mississippi on a farm during the depression. And it was about the life of families then and the family that he was born into and the family that he created with my mom and my brother and me.”
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson — Hold Space for Grief with Anderson Cooperat 19:23
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