Wonderful You
An Adoption Story
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A heartwarming tale about adoption, diversity, and acceptance that's perfect for all types of families!
A lyrical adoption story that tenderly addresses a baby’s transition from the care of her birth mother to that of her adoptive parents. This lovely poem illuminates the role of an adopted child’s birth mother, respecting her choice to give her child to a loving family. We follow a mother’s journey as she carries her child, searches for deserving parents, and ultimately creates a new family. The story offers a version of the process that is full of warmth, care, and joy.
An adoptive mother herself, author Lauren McLaughlin was glad for an opportunity to memorialize her family’s own fairy tale, and Meilo So’s ethereal illustrations breathe magic into an already wondrous experience.
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McLaughlin's story opens with the "Wonderful You" of the title still inside her birth mother, a "lady in blue" who searches the world for the perfect parents. Certain that she has found a man and woman who will provide "a home for my girl that is loving and kind," a dreamy handoff takes place in the clouds, the lady disappears on a large white bird, and the delighted couple imagines their future as parents of a daughter. McLaughlin's (the Mitzi Tulane, Preschool Detective series) lilting rhymes veer into the overly sentimental ("We were made for each other, as families are.../ each one, in its way, a story unfolding/ of laughter and teardrops and arms made for holding") but So (Follow the Moon Home) delivers ethereal visions of family life. Parents and daughter literally float through a life of snowy scenes, swing sets, and seashores. So's characters may defy the laws of gravity, but their radiant, almost musical joy speaks to the rewards of magical thinking, and the poignancy of emotional truths. Ages 3 7. Author's)
