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Book ReviewsOver the Moon : An Adoption Tale |
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Book: Over the Moon : An Adoption Tale
Written by: Karen Katz |
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Disagree w/review
Rating:
5 / 5
I know the review I am quoting below is ancient, but I had to respond. The suggested statement infers that the birthparents' home is inferior. The whole issue my daughter's birthparents had to painfully come to grips with was the fact that they couldn't care for their child due to finances and their age. If a child learns that truth, they realize that they were indeed wanted, not just passed off to a better place for no reason. I'd be insecure in thinking that my new parents might indiscrimantly do the same. If my daughter's birthparents could have taken care of her, there would not have been an adoption. But that doesn't make their home a bad, inferior place.
<<This lovely story, so beautifully illustrated, could have been excellent if instead of "her parents couldn't take care of her" had said, "Her parents wanted her to have the best possible home."- or another positive line. Adoptees may have concerns about this explanation (expressed or not expressed). However, it may promote some healthy discussion.>>
A fun adoption book just right for youngsters
Rating:
5 / 5
I like the magical urgency expressed in the words of one adoptive family flying 'over the moon and through the night' to pick up their baby and love her 'forever and always.'It is a simple story that can be understood by small children. The illustrations are charming and stress the importance of the family unit.
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
Love this Book
Rating:
5 / 5
This is about the best book we have that deals with how we became a family - hands down! Our daughter was born in China as is our Number #2 daughter who we are expecting any day now. I found alot of the "classics" in the "how we became a family" to be not my cup of tea or piece of crazy cake, as it were."Over the Moon" approaches the "how you were born" subject so beautifully that we felt comfortable reading it to our 3 year old (over and over and over........) and would have felt comfortable reading it to her 2 years ago! A very gentle, happy, gorgeous book!
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