Eyes Like My Mother's

By Mila C.C. Konomos

Everyone tells me I am "lucky." They tell me I should be grateful to be adopted . . .as if I'm not allowed to feel angry or sad.
---If you have ever been afraid to talk about your feelings or needed a safe place to ask hard questions, this story might be for you. Written, illustrated, designed, and published by and through a creative collaboration of transracial, transnational adoptees and intergenerational adoptees, Eyes Like My Mother's stands alone as a work by and for children who have been adopted, and for the adults in their lives who sincerely seek to understand them.
---Adoption survivor and coach Mila C.C. Konomos shares a reflection of her own lived experience in her debut picture book, Eyes Like My Mother's: an honest lens of what it feels like to wonder, to long for someone, to ask questions that might never be answered. Together with nikki often's sparing, beautiful artwork, Mila's poetic narrative holds space for the wide expanse of adoption realities and offers a sincere acknowledgement of the emotional complexities of surviving them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1638940207
• ISBN13: 9781638940203
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: Kind World Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4