24th July World Cousins Day

Cousins Day is an annual celebration of the special relationship that exists between cousins, a time to tell your cousins how much you appreciate them. “First cousins” are children of one’s aunt or uncle and whose closest common ancestor is a grandparent. Cousins often become lifelong friends through bonding at family reunions and get-togethers, holidays, birthday parties or weddings.

I don't have a lot of cousins and those I do have do not live nearby, so there is not that special bond, but my siblings and I have made sure that our children do know each other and see each other occasionally. 

Books about cousins 'weren't on my radar' until I heard debut author Sharara Attai speak at a CBC function about her new book. I then looked up the catalogue to see if we had any books because I could think of families at school whose cousins were also at school. We did not have many, so I thought this book would make a good addition.

What we had:

There are some others: