Happy Adoption Day!

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Summary: A kind of birthday
Review: Adoption day is a kind of birthday.

Some families (like ours) may choose after a while to celebrate only a child's actual birthday.

Nevertheless, this book is a helpful way to celebrate a child's acceptance into his or her adoptive family, especially for kids adopted at older ages or internationally.

There is nothing wrong with stating that the world is troubled. After all, it is.

But the overall message of this beautifully illustrated volume is one of acceptance and love. It is a keepsake that most adoptive families will cherish.

Hurrah, John McCutcheon! Alyssa A. Lappen

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Summary: Do not appreciate reference to homosexuality
Review: At first I thought this book was a wonderful learning tool and good story for my newborn son. However, the reference that some parents 'come the same' and the picture of a lesbian couple walking with a little girl was very inappropriate for an adoption book. Why do homosexual references need to be in a CHILDREN'S book??? This only opens up the opportunity for a young child to ask an awful lot of questions about same sex relationships, perhaps BEFORE a parent is ready to discuss. I will not be reading this book again.

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Summary: Something to celebrate
Review: I've given this book and/or a CD with the song on it to a bunch of kids.

The one caution I would give is that it's not be a good gift if you don't know how/when/if the parents intend to child the child their adoption story. If the child is growing up, as many in my life are, never NOT knowing the story, this book and this song can help carry the story.

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Summary: Unique, musically speaking!
Review: This is a lovely story of one happy family with their little adopted child from another continent. The author was inspired to serenade the little child by putting the words in Happy Adoption Day to music. Now we can all sing to our adopted youngsters.

Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?

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Summary: Wonderful Gift
Review: We received this book (and the companion CD - Family Garden) as a gift for our daughters adoption day. In our family (three kids and counting - by adoption) we celebrate adoption days in much the same way as birthdays with cake, presents songs etc. That is where this book comes in. It is absolutely perfect. On each childs adoption day, they blow out the candles on the cake and we open this book, put in the CD and all sing together. The kids absolutely love it and you can see in their eyes whether it is their day or not, that there is a deep and loving meaning to the whole process which makes this so much more than just a book and a song. As I said to my sister who gave it to us, it is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Wishing you many happy adoption days.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Gift
Review: We received this book (and the companion CD - Family Garden) as a gift for our daughters adoption day. In our family (three kids and counting - by adoption) we celebrate adoption days in much the same way as birthdays with cake, presents songs etc. That is where this book comes in. It is absolutely perfect. On each childs adoption day, they blow out the candles on the cake and we open this book, put in the CD and all sing together. The kids absolutely love it and you can see in their eyes whether it is their day or not, that there is a deep and loving meaning to the whole process which makes this so much more than just a book and a song. As I said to my sister who gave it to us, it is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Wishing you many happy adoption days.