Pockets of Love: A Picture Book About Making a Family That Fits

Bindi never planned to be anyone's mama. Buddy never planned to need a new place for his heart to rest. Love did not wait for either of them to plan.

Bindi is a kangaroo teacher who always saved a seat for the joey who needed a little longer to feel safe. When a quiet new joey named Buddy arrives, she does not rush him. She gives him a job, walks him to the gate day after day, feeds the class goldfish beside him in the rain, and slowly learns the Buddy things, toast cut in triangles, eggs that look wiggly, the questions asked at bedtime. A family is built the way it is always built, not in one grand moment, but in a hundred ordinary ones, until home feels full in the smallest, stickiest, most everyday ways.

Family is not only the one you are handed. It is the one that makes room. This book is for every child who found their people somewhere unexpected, and for the grown-ups who stepped in, stepped up, and stayed. Love does not wait for a plan. It finds the open pocket, and it stays.

Meet Bindi and Buddy, and the family they made from an open seat.