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Title: When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted from China by Sara Dorow, Stephen Wunrow ISBN: 0-9638472-1-X Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Positive presentation with a bit of fairy tale mixed in.
Comment: I found this book to be a positive story with many truths. I take exception to the presentation of the parents "loving" their daughter so much that they want the best for her.
As an adoptive parent of a beautiful Chinese daughter, I don't want her to think that her birthmother was a fairy godmother, or a movie star who will come get her some day.
The truth that China is a male dominated society and the mothers are sometimes forced to abandon the girls due to political & family presure is not presented.
I much prefer the book, "Why Was I Adopted".
Rating: 5
Summary: An aid to explain to family & friends
Comment: Thanks to the misinformation doled out by the sensationalistic Western media, many misconceptions about the cultural/family situation in China exist. ("China sells babies"; "The Chinese don't love their children", etc.) When my wife and I adopted our daughter, we gave copies of this book to our parents and friends to help them understand her beginnings, just as we will use it to explain to her when the inevitable questions will arise. It's a great tool to bridge the cultural gap.
Rating: 2
Summary: A risky approach to explaining adoption to a Chinese child
Comment: I am not Chinese but I felt, throughout reading this book, that the author may be treading on thin ice with some of her descriptions of China ("...houses and apartments are small and usually don't have hot running water. In the countryside, people often have no indoor plumbing at all...") and her in-depth explanation of the Chinese government's rule that only one child is allowed per couple, preferably a son. The author spends a great deal of time explaining to the young adoptee why it is a costly catastrophe for a Chinese couple to have a girl when they really wanted a son. . . and so "your birthparents couldn't find a way to keep a daughter in their family and still have a son to take care of them later in life..." I cannot imagine that a girl child (no matter what age) reading these pages will feel good about her adoption, or, indeed, feel good about being a girl even though, toward the end of the book, the caring adoptive parents arrived. There is also too much explaining of other reasons why the baby girl was given up, such as medical problems, unmarried birthmother...all this added to the reality that girls are not wanted. "They then carried you to a public place, like a park, or a busy street corner, or a police station- a place where they knew you would be found..." Frankly, I cannot imagine reading this book to an adoptee. These truths will be bitter enough when the adoptee is an adult and learns about Chinese history and culture, but are too brutal to be told at an early age. Just love the child, please, and reserve the unhappy details for much later. An enchanting book like that written by Rose Lewis, I love you like Crazy Cakes is all that is needed to soothe the little girl's soul and let her understand that she came from China.
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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Title: Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin, Brian Boyd, Terry Fry, Terry Fry ISBN: 0963847260 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis ISBN: 0316525383 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title:Chinese Lullabies ASIN: B000005AS1 Publisher: Wind Records Pub. Date: 30 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.98 |
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Title: The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans, Anchee Min ISBN: 1585421170 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 27 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption by Jean Davies Okimoto, Elaine M. Aoki, Meilo So ISBN: 0618164537 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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