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Summary: Run don't walk to get your copy of Kids Like Me in China
Review: A friend told us about this wonderful book and I ordered it that day. I can't put the book down! I'm a mother of an adopted daughter from China and i can't wait until she's old enough to read it and understand it. Right now she loves the pictures of all the Chinese girls. She's 19 months. We have a special connection to the book because my daughter is from the same place as ying ying (the 8year old who wrote the book)! Even if we didn't i still highly reccommend the book.
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Summary: A Wonderful Gift to Share with Children and Parents
Review: As a prospective adoptive parent of a Chinese child, I found Ying Ying's book to be very enjoyable and helpful. With the help of her parents and others, Ying Ying has presented a wonderful gift to other adopted Chinese Children, who like her may wonder about the "whys" and "what fors" of their early lives. It is also helpful to those of us trying to know more about how our children might feel and what they may have experienced. Ying Ying's voice offers a wonderful story for us and our children. The book also is valuable because it offers insight into the lives of some of the children who are not adopted, and who are raised in the welfare institutes. Great job, Ying Ying!!
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Summary: A Wonderful Gift to Share with Children and Parents
Review: As a prospective adoptive parent of a Chinese child, I found Ying Ying's book to be very enjoyable and helpful. With the help of her parents and others, Ying Ying has presented a wonderful gift to other adopted Chinese Children, who like her may wonder about the "whys" and "what fors" of their early lives. It is also helpful to those of us trying to know more about how our children might feel and what they may have experienced. Ying Ying's voice offers a wonderful story for us and our children. The book also is valuable because it offers insight into the lives of some of the children who are not adopted, and who are raised in the welfare institutes. Great job, Ying Ying!!
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Summary: An important resource
Review: As an adult Korean adoptee and the author of a memoir about my own adoption experience, I was excited to read "Kids Like Me In China." This book is extremely well written and serves as an important resource for adoptive parents and their children. I only wish a book such as this one would have been available when I was a child growing up in Salt Lake City - often feeling like I was the only Asian and the only adopted person in the whole world. How wonderful that today's children can hear about the adoption experience - told with warmth, curiosity and honesty - from one of their peers, as well as see their faces reflected in the beautiful photographs throughout the book.
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Summary: It sounds excellent!!!
Review: By accident, i found this site! I am Chinese and my English teachers (They are a couple)were from the US. They also adopted a girl named Evie Xuezhi Braun from Changsha just the same city as Ying Ying.I was really moved by their adoptive actions when I heard they had no kids and wanna adopt a Chinese orphan. I can still remember the time they saw me off when I started for Shanghai to work there after my graduation.Evie was also there with her American Parents. I really wanna recommand this book to them. It sounds helpful to them and Evie. But we are all in China. I can't get the book~but I will tell them the name of this great book!! Thanks for your Americans' kindness!!! Many Thanks!!!
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I cannot say enough about this book, especially for parents who have adopted from China. I bought this book for my daughter Rachel, sight unseen, because I knew that Ying Ying Fry was from the same city in China as my daughter Rachel. It is an understatement to say that I was shocked and surprised to learn that not only are they both from the same orphanage, but my daughter's picture actually appears in the book! (the pics for the book were taken one month before we travelled to adopt our daughter). It's great to have a book to share with Rachel about her city, about her first year of life, that is written by a child for children! If you have any connection to the Chinese adoption process, you must have this book!
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I cannot say enough about this book, especially for parents who have adopted from China. I bought this book for my daughter Rachel, sight unseen, because I knew that Ying Ying Fry was from the same city in China as my daughter Rachel. It is an understatement to say that I was shocked and surprised to learn that not only are they both from the same orphanage, but my daughter's picture actually appears in the book! (the pics for the book were taken one month before we travelled to adopt our daughter). It's great to have a book to share with Rachel about her city, about her first year of life, that is written by a child for children! If you have any connection to the Chinese adoption process, you must have this book!
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Summary: An inspiration and encouragement for adoptees
Review: I love--abosutely LOVE--Ying Ying Fry's book _Kids Like Me in China--because she addresses (actually quite sophisticated and complex) arguments of adoption research in a personal way, such as saying that sometimes she wondered what it would be like to grow up in an orphanage with the other children, and sometimes when she saw all the babies in the orphanage she had to leave the room. She didn't say (her mother, the editor/transcriber, and her publisher didn't force her to say) that she went back to China, saw the poor starving children, and now feels lucky to be an American-adopted kid. I love how her narrative opens up spaces for other adopted kids to say--yeah, so what if I DID grow up in an orphanage? The woman Ying Ying meets in the book is a part-time model. That's hardly the half-naked, groveling, uneducated street beggar I was told I'd be without the "fortune" of being adopted. When I read Ying Ying's book, I felt so proud of her as a little-sister-adoptee. The vow that I made last year, that I will dedicate my life to better the lives of other adoptees, is a little bit easier to keep knowing that others out there--even a young elementary-school child--are able to take steps in that direction. I lack Ying Ying's language proficiency and connections/background of adoptive parents, but so do many other adoptees. I don't want to speak for adoptees at large. I want to assert the right to tell my story, and in telling my story I want to simultaneously break down the white, male, non-adoptee gaze that assimilates and twists my story to further its own socio-political agenda, and I want to--as Ying Ying has done--set my story out there as an example for other kids. We adoptees have few models. When I read Ying Ying's story, I could both identify with her and say, "that was different for me." The process really helped me to clarify what I wanted to say, and it also encouraged me--that if Ying Ying could do it, so can I.
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Summary: An Excellent book for adoptive parents and their children!
Review: I purchased KIDS LIKE ME IN CHINA shortly after seeing it displayed at our local Chinese New Year's Party. Although my daughter is not quite 20 months old yet, I have already begun reading this book to her, and showing her the wonderful pictures. Ying Ying has been gracious enough to share her story with us, which in many ways will be the stories of many of our daughter's from China. As our daughter grows, she will be able to learn about how she came to be in our family, and with Ying Ying's help, she will be better able to understand her story through the eyes of a young girl. I highly recommend this book to anyone thinking of adoption from China, or if you already have your daughter, this book will be an excellent way to talk about China and relate their personal stories. The pictures are wonderful also, the babies in the orphanages are all so precious, and Ying Ying's feelings are so open and real as she travels back to where her story began. This book was a MUST HAVE for our daughter's library!
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Summary: Fantastic! I LOVE reading "Kids" with my kid.
Review: I've already read "Kids" with my daughter nearly a dozen times and we'll no doubt read (and talk about it) it again and again and again. It's touching, enlightening, and really fun to see China through Ying Ying's eyes. It's also wonderful that the book is not just her story, but clearly one that could belong to any kid from China. Having read only parents' accounts so far, I'm also really, really pleased to get the perspectives of a child, For me, it's all about the kids, and it's clear that they can be every bit as eloquent in telling their own stories in their own words. This book should dispel all doubts that kids are capable of making sense of their complex stories. "Kids" doesn't gloss over the hard stuff, but has it all just right in just the right amount of detail. I love it for the hard stuff and I love it for the fun stuff. We get the fun stuff through Ying Ying's ability to converse in Mandarin, which simply gives her (and us) access to the ordinary in China: other kids' lives, schools, and homes. My daughter is just drinking this in and I can't get enough of it. Great story, great pictures, great book!
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