Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children

Rating:
Summary: Great Story, Not So Great Book
Review: Read all the other reviews for the story context. It is a good story HOWEVER it is all black and white. This book could of been so much better with a little imagination and color. I was extremely disappointed to find the pictures gray, dull and lifeless. This book would be so much better with colorful pictures and text.

Rating:
Summary: Difficult subject, well dealt with
Review: The story of the little kitten, who's daddy disappears, and Mummy is bad to him, is well written and non judgemental. The kitten is taken away from his birth mother and fostered, then adopted into a family of Swans, who love him. The book tells about the kitten's confusion and feelings of loss, and has a happy ending when the adoptive parents re-state their love for him.

This book is relevant for children who have been removed from a birth parent's home, not for children adopted after being orphaned or abandoned, and the picture of the scary Mum will probably introduce the wrong message about their birth parents.

Rating:
Summary: Fabulous for adopting a child through the foster care system
Review: This book clearly explains the child coming into foster care and then being adopted. Great for children who were adopted though the foster care system.