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Title: At Home in This World, A China Adoption Story by Jean MacLeod ISBN: 0-9726244-1-4 Publisher: Emk Pr Pub. Date: 04 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: At Home in the World
Comment: I highly recommend this book, especially for pre-teen children who are just beginning to think more deeply about issues raised by international adoption. The watercolors are beautiful, the concept is excellent and the narrative well written and very strong. At Home in This World will help older children think about the issues surrounding their abandonment and adoption and may help many of them articulate their own ideas and feelings. I especially like that this story is told through the voice of an older child rather than an omniscient narrator or parent. It invites the reading child to identify with the narrator and leaves room for the child to spin the story as she wishes. An important contribution to the emerging literature written for internationally-adopted children.
Rating: 5
Summary: FABULOUS!
Comment: I think the best way to share the impact of this book is to relate the following--after I read the book to my daughter, Jaclyn, who was adopted at the age of 4 from China, she silently cluctched the book to her chest and then placed it in the pile of "treasures" she has. Needless to say the book had a powerful impact. This book was very needed as there was truly a void in books that help the slightly older girls express "their" story. Jean did a fabulous job in doing this and in conveying, as part of the education guide, the importance of helping our kids relate and understand their stories. The book also has captivating photos and is truly a treasure!!! I can't recommend it highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential book for children adopted internationally
Comment: From the moment my own adopted daughter said, "I don't look like anyone in my family", I realized again the importance of explaining her story in words that she could understand and take to heart. "At Home in this World" is the book that so many adoptive parents have been waiting for.....a story told in words that children can truly understand. The main character writes: "Part of my life has been like a puzzle needing pieces, but I am understanding more about myself and my life everyday." Our adopted children want this more than anything....to understand their stories and how their lives began. "At Home in this World" is the perfect book to help an adopted child know that there are others feeling the same way they are. It doesn't downplay the very real feelings that adoptees often have about not being able to know their birthparents or wishing they looked like their new family. It is honest and genuine. I found it to be a very empowering book for my daughter, showing her that it is okay to speak openly about the truth that she did indeed have a life before adoption.
After reading this book, my almost five year old daughter and I were in the car with a whole vanful of teens. My daughter turned to my son's friend and said, "see my brown eyes? My birthparents gave them to me." "At Home in this World" was an important book that helped show my daughter that she has her own story to tell, one that has both loss and joy, and one that she can indeed be proud to call her own. I can't recommend it more highly.
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Title: Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China by Kay Ann Johnson, Amy Klatzkin ISBN: 0963847279 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: I Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze ISBN: 0972624422 Publisher: Emk Pr Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: We See the Moon by Carrie A. Kitze ISBN: 0972624406 Publisher: EMK Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another by Cindy Champnella ISBN: 0312309635 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Good Women of China : Hidden Voices by XINRAN XUE ISBN: 1400030803 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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