ABC, Adoption & Me — a Multi-cultural Picture Book for Adoptive Families Paperback – July 1, 2013 by Gayle H. Swift , Casey Anne Swift

Description

Author: Swift Gayle H.

Brand: Gayle Swift

Edition: Illustrated

Package Dimensions: 5x211x136

Number Of Pages: 36

Release Date: 01-07-2013

Details: Product Description

When this ORIGINAL edition was published in 2013, it was named n
amed a
Favorite Read of 2013
by
Adoptive Families
, (the award-winning national adoption magazine.) Named a
Notable Picture Book for 2013
by
Shelf Unbound
in their Dec/Jan 2014 issue;
Honorable Mention
–
Gittle List of 2014;
Finalist;
IPNE 2014 Book Awards (Independent Publishers of New England),
Honorable Mention
2014 Purple Dragonfly Book Award

A
child’s review: ”
Most adoption books only talk about the good part of adoption. ABC shows adoption from the kid’s side.”
ABC, Adoption & Me expresses their complicated feelings in a way that makes them feel normal and which makes it easy for them to discuss with their families.  Includes a parent guide.
ABC, Adoption & Me celebrates the blessing of family and addresses the difficult issues as well. Exuberant, multicultural illustrations depict a wide range of families.
Includes a parent guide.

Review
“This collaboration between an adoptive mother and her daughter tackles weighty topics. “What I love about this book is how it touches on many aspects of adoption that could be difficult to talk about, but not in a threatening or forceful way. It can be used over and over again as children grow” –Adopted Families Magazine the award-winning national adoption magazine, the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.

Reviewed By Katelyn Hensel for Readers’ Favorite”… a sweet and fun book that shows that it’s okay to have a family that isn’t “traditional.” It raises important questions that need to be addressed by adopted families and showcases that love and acceptance are huge parts of what brings families together…”

“ABC, Adoption & Me”
breaks new ground in the field of adoption experience integration. Useful for children, families, caretakers, and teachers … uses bright cartoon illustrations to present interracial adoptive families and origin birth families with equal validity and authenticity, as well as many other adoption sensitive issues and topics. ”
ABC, Adoption & Me” deserves every single one of its many awards and should be a part of every child’s library.” Midwest Book Review

“ABC, Adoption & Me
… written in the simple style of an ABC definition book, but the concepts contain a depth than is not often found in a children’s adoption book.  All three of my girls – ranging in age from 4 to 11, remained engaged and interested as we read each page…
I have seen each of my children pick this book up from the bookshelf and reread it multiple times, no doubt gleaning new information each time.”–
Portrait of an Adoption is hosted by Carrie Goldman, the award-winning author of Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear.

From the Author
What inspired you to write “ABC, Adoption & Me”?

Adoption brought great joy to my husband and me. As the children grew, we made adoption a normal part of family conversations. Our placement agency operated on the philosophy of finding families for children, instead of finding children for families. They spent a lot of time educating us to have an open heart about the realities of adoption. We savored the blessings adoption brought us and did not allow that pleasure to cloud our awareness that adoption had its roots in significant loss for our kids. Our family library included most of the kid’s titles available at the time. Many were wonderful and we all–kids and parents–enjoyed reading them together.

But the difficult aspects of adoption never got a mention in kid’s books. None ever talked about the yearning, the unanswered questions, the puzzling challenge of having both birth and adoptive families. Like most adoptees, our kids wondered about their birth parents, where they were and what they were doing. And of course, the biggie: why were they placed for adoption?

We generated our own “teachabl