Tell Me a Real Adoption Story

by Betty Jean Lifton

Book Overview

A parent tells an adopted child about coming to the family. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679806296
• ISBN13: 9780679806295
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Honest

I read this book as an adult adoptee as well as her adult books. It is an honest book about adoption written by another adoptee.

Another printing needed

Excellent children's book, perfect for children at the very age when their adoption begins to become something they are aware of--and should be aware of. Nice combination of fantasy and reality. Agree with earlier review about the importance and beauty of inclusion of the birth mother. Birth mothers need more of this honest, thoughtful recognition of the struggles they experience. Ignorance with respect to this issue among much of the general public is astonishing, sad, and ultimately, in too many cases, tragic. The two tales within the story also provide two excellent and different models to encourage and inform adoptive parents who may struggle with communicating clearly and lovingly the basic issues of adoption to their children. Not all of us are blessed with equal creative and verbal skills. Models can help. In short, this is a must for all families with adopted children. Alfred A Knopf needs to do another printing and keep this available. The potential market for this book may not be overwhelming, but certainly steady and sure. Thank you to Betty Jean Lifton for a wonderful book.

An Honest Adoption Story

Finally and adoption story that does not leave out the final person essential to adoption--the birth mother! Because it was written by an adoptee, this book is more true to an adopted children's actual ponderings and questions than any other I've seen. A must have for the book shelf of any adopted children!

A Sweet Story

This is a wonderful story about how a child can be so loved and welcomed into a family. I have two adopted children ages 3 & 4 and they went to this book repeatedly. We got it from lib. and now lookig for a copy for our own. It is a great book