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Over the Moon : An Adoption Tale| Media: | Hardcover | | Author: | Karen Katz | | Publisher: | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | | Release date: | 15 September, 1997 | | List price: | $16.95 |
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My 3-year old's favorite adoption book! |
Over the Moon is, by far, my son's favorite adoption book. He points to the baby in the picture and shouts "me!" every time we read it. We didn't adopt him from a tropical climate full of beautiful purple flowers, but he doesn't care. He knows we waited and wished for him like the parents in this book and we flew on a plane to get him. For a young child like him that's plenty with which to identify.
The message in this book is universal for all internationally adopted children: we couldn't wait to meet you and would have gone over the moon to get you! |
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Disagree w/review |
I know the review I am quoting below is ancient, but I had to respond. The suggested statement infers that the birthparents' home is inferior. The whole issue my daughter's birthparents had to painfully come to grips with was the fact that they couldn't care for their child due to finances and their age. If a child learns that truth, they realize that they were indeed wanted, not just passed off to a better place for no reason. I'd be insecure in thinking that my new parents might indiscrimantly do the same. If my daughter's birthparents could have taken care of her, there would not have been an adoption. But that doesn't make their home a bad, inferior place.
<<This lovely story, so beautifully illustrated, could have been excellent if instead of "her parents couldn't take care of her" had said, "Her parents wanted her to have the best possible home."- or another positive line. Adoptees may have concerns about this explanation (expressed or not expressed). However, it may promote some healthy discussion.>> |
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A fun adoption book just right for youngsters |
I like the magical urgency expressed in the words of one adoptive family flying 'over the moon and through the night' to pick up their baby and love her 'forever and always.'It is a simple story that can be understood by small children. The illustrations are charming and stress the importance of the family unit.
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice? |
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