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PreSchool-Grade 2?Samantha tells about her daily life and her memories, including being told that she was adopted and, later, being shown a book about how babies are born and learning that "I did not grow inside Mommy's uterus. I grew in another woman's uterus" and, still later, asking and being told how she was adopted (a closed adoption through an agency, placement at one week). Samantha is smiling in all of the 28 cartoon-style illustrations in which readers can see her face (except one of her as a week-old baby looking startled by the camera, one as a baby asleep, and one as a toddler intently rolling a ball). She is never sad, cranky, or even pensive. Her parents are always smiling. The pictures she draws are of smiling people. In the five-page introduction for parents, Cole says that "The important thing is to create a loving atmosphere in which children's feelings?both positive and negative?can be shared openly over time." However, not a single negative feeling is mentioned, or even hinted at in the book itself. This title will not encourage open sharing of feelings, and could even be harmful to adopted children by reinforcing the idea that they have to be cheerful, no matter what, in order to be accepted by their adoptive family. It holds the parents to an unreal standard too. Fred Rogers's Let's Talk about It: Adoption (Putnam, 1995), while vague on some points, does show a normal range of feelings. Betty Lifton's Tell Me a Real Adoption Story (Knopf, 1994) includes the birthmother as a person with feelings, not just a uterus.?Nancy Schimmel, formerly of San Mateo County Library, CA
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Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| I have 4 children, the youngest 3 of whom are adopted. we received this book as a gift, sometime after bringing the 2nd of these 3 home. all 3 of them have requested this story by name, sometimes 2 or 3 times a night. I try to read it to them at least 4 or 5 nights a week, and they never tire of hearing it.
it is a story told from a child's point of view, but more importantly, from the point of view of a child who is happy and informed. samantha knows she's adopted, and knows that this is different from the experience of some other children.
we've been committed, from the beginning, to making our kids aware of the process, the similarities and the differences that are part and parcel of being adopted. samantha's story clearly helps them approach this mysterious place with a level of comfort. it also provides cues for parents to talk about adoption, in ways that are appropriate for the age.
when samantha asks "do you know how old you were when you were adopted?", my kids, ages 8, 6 and 2, answer in turn, obviously proud to know.
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