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Summary: An Adoptee POV
Review: This is a lovely book --- of course it will not address every specific situation, but that's OK - kids love to hear stories about kids like them, but it does not need to be identical.
As an adult adoptee, though, I felt the need to reassure the adoptive parents who might read some of the other reviews ---- do not lose heart at the thought of an embittered adult adopted child. In my experience, these are a very rare minority of people who would have had psychological or self esteem issues no matter what their circumstances --- however, they've decided to hang their lot in life on their adoption status.
Get this book and others to share the joy of adoption with yur child --- let them know that they were desperately wanted in your family and that it's OK to ask questions about their birth parents. A loving family is a loving family, no matter how it was formed.
God bless all your little ones!
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Summary: Another hit by Jamie!
Review: This is a nice adoption story which little adopted kids will find easy to understand. The questions asked by the little child will stimulate the young readers into asking questions about their own birth and drawing comparisons. The pictures are delightful and whimsical. I like Curtis' simple explanation that the birthmother was too young to take care of the child and needed to find parents for her baby. She avoided confusing the young reader with the "chosen baby" story and that the birthmother gave the baby up because she loved the child. I am an adoptive mother of a four-day-old girl and I too kept my explanations to the fact that our birthmother was not able to take care of the baby. It would have been fun to have had this book when our little girl was young.Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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Summary: Great book for domestic adoptions
Review: This is an adorable book for domestic adoptions. It answers the questions that preschoolers ask in a simple way. This is a true hit. If you don't have a domestic adoption however, choose another book.
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Summary: Just keep in mind that all children are different.
Review: While I adore Jamie Lee Curtis and enjoy her writing style I think it is very important to remember that all children are different and all reactions are different.
One reviewer, an adoptee, mentioned that "bitter adoptees" are few and that they would have had emotional issues regardless. This is wholly inaccurate and adoption needs to be looked at not only through the nice, warm, teddy bear thoughts expressed here but through reality as well. This is a base for a discussion and that discussion must include loss. Adoption requires a loss of family for the child. Never forget that children grieve and never allow the warm-fuzzies to replace a clear view of what the child is going through.
I am also an adoptee. I love my family and encourage anything that starts a dialog as long as it is a true dialog and not edited by something read in a book or on a review.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Wow, Jamie Curtis is so eloquent, fluent and engaging in her writing that my kids make me read her book to them over and over again. This woman truly does have a knack for children's writing and based on my children's response to this book I plan on purchasing all of the other books she has published.
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