Some Do, Some Don't

How do families live together, and why are they sometimes apart? This profound and moving book will inspire reflection and conversation about what unites us and what makes us distinct individuals.

Colombian creator Dipacho explores the many ways we live with other people—or, at times, apart from them—with striking illustrations of the jabiru, the largest member of the stork family of birds. In spare, poetic text and stunning watercolors, Dipacho honors family togetherness as well as families whose members choose to live apart, or are separated by circumstances. Moving spreads pay tribute to family members who have died, and those just born. This ingeniously conceived book gives equal weight to the conventional and the unconventional arrangements in which we live, sparking conversations about what it means to be a family. The book ends with informational back matter about the fascinating jabiru stork, grounding it in the world of facts.

Dipacho, the psesudonym of Diego Francisco Sanchez Rodriguez, is the creator of the picture book Antonia: A Journey to a New Home. He is an award-winning Colombian author, illustrator, graphic designer, and musician whose picture books have been published in Colombia and other South American countries as well as France and Italy. Some Do, Some Don’t was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Bologna Illustrator's Exhibition.