Happy Adoption Day!

by John McCutcheon

Book Overview

This adaptation of McCutcheon's song commemorates the day when a child joins an adoptive family. Complete with musical notation, these verses reassure adopted children they are special. Full-color... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316554553
• ISBN13: 9780316554558
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Happy Adoption Day!

Great book. This is our second purchase of the book. We bought one for us and liked it so much, we now buy it as a gift.

Wonderful Gift

We received this book (and the companion CD - Family Garden) as a gift for our daughters adoption day. In our family (three kids and counting - by adoption) we celebrate adoption days in much the same way as birthdays with cake, presents songs etc. That is where this book comes in. It is absolutely perfect. On each childs adoption day, they blow out the candles on the cake and we open this book, put in the CD and all sing together. The kids absolutely love it and you can see in their eyes whether it is their day or not, that there is a deep and loving meaning to the whole process which makes this so much more than just a book and a song. As I said to my sister who gave it to us, it is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Wishing you many happy adoption days.

A kind of birthday

Adoption day is a kind of birthday.Some families (like ours) may choose after a while to celebrate only a child's actual birthday. Nevertheless, this book is a helpful way to celebrate a child's acceptance into his or her adoptive family, especially for kids adopted at older ages or internationally. There is nothing wrong with stating that the world is troubled. After all, it is. But the overall message of this beautifully illustrated volume is one of acceptance and love. It is a keepsake that most adoptive families will cherish. Hurrah, John McCutcheon! Alyssa A. Lappen

Our family's story

We received this book as a Christmas gift shortly after our 2nd child arrived from Korea. I read it to my daughter at nap time and found myself dissolving into tears. Here was OUR story. This is a delightful book for any adoptive family, especially those with children from Asia. The song is marvellous; we sing it regularly and of course on thoses "adoption day" celebrations.

Beautiful family celebration of adoption.

Cheerful, brightly colored book done in song that celebrates the uniting of a family via adoption. I am a parent on her way to adopt her child internationally and I was looking for a good children's and family book. Most books I saw treated adoption as "different" or a "problem". This book celebrates! Very cool