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Beginnings: How Families Come to Be Hardcover – January 1, 1994
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- Reading age3 - 8 years
- Print length1 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level1 - 2
- Dimensions8.25 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
- PublisherConcept Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1994
- ISBN-100807506028
- ISBN-13978-0807506028
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- Publisher : Concept Books (January 1, 1994)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 1 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0807506028
- ISBN-13 : 978-0807506028
- Reading age : 3 - 8 years
- Grade level : 1 - 2
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,650,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,502 in Children's Books on Adoption
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Virginia Kroll is the author of over fifty books for children and winner of a 2004 Children's choice award. A former elementary school teacher, she lives in New York with her husband and has raised six children of her own.
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I am entering into foster care parenting and was hoping to find a book for a foster care friend who is looking to adopt. Since most children adopted are not babies, the book probably won't work for our needs... even though it mentions a child being adopted out of foster care. I'll keep looking... and if you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
This book does a wonderful job of different paths to adoption, which is very useful in helping both adopted and non-adopted children understand that there's always a story behind the word "adopted", and every family's story is different. It features single-mom and single-dad families. It features domestic and international adoption, open and closed, and by relatives, acquaintances, and strangers. It omits the grief and the loss entirely. So by all means, read this with your children. Just don't let this be the only book about adoption that you read with your children.
For those of you who might find it helpful to have more details about the specific situations presented, here is a summary. Ruben was born to and remained with a birth mother and a birth father. Katherine was born in another country to a mother who "couldn't take care of her" before being adopted by her mom and dad as an infant. Mark was born to a single mother who was "very sick"; when she died, her brother adopted Mark (aged 4 months). Olivia was born to a young woman and her boyfriend who were "too young to care for a baby properly" and choose someone they knew, a single woman, to adopt the baby; the adoptive mom remains in touch with the birth mom. Habib's parents decided during Kwanzaa that they wanted to adopt, and the adoptive mom's doctor "had another patient who was pregnant, who felt she was too young and too poor to keep her child," and had asked the doctor to help her find an adoptive family; the adoptive dad makes no mention of knowing anything about or staying in touch with the birth parents. Nicole was adopted as an older, school-aged child ("done with kindergarten"); she "lived with [her] birth mother for two months. Then two foster families cared for you after that." Nicole's adoptive parents saw her profile in "the Blue Books, where children who need new homes are pictured." The adoptive dad says that they "loaded you and your wheelchair" into their new van, but no other details are provided. Nicole remembers being shy at first but eventually feeling comfortable with her new family.
The stories are written in 3rd person as a conversation between each child and his or her parents, with each child asking the story of their beginning. One is biological, one is foster to adopt, one is international adoption, one is domestic adoption, one is a family member adopting his nephew when his sister dies, and one is domestic adoption by a single woman. There are a variety of races and cultures represented (some the same within a family, and some biracial). All the explanations are simple for a child to understand, and presented in a matter of fact yet positive way, but not in a syrupy sweet way as in other books I’ve read.
Of all the adoption picture books we have, this is my favorite. The others are too specific, and therefore don't mirror our family's adoption story.