Seeds of Love: For Brothers and Sisters of International Adoption

by Mary Ebejer Petertyl

Adding a new baby to the family is an exciting time for young children. It can also be a stressful one -- especially if you're a young child whose parents will be traveling abroad without you to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965575314
• ISBN13: 9780965575317
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Folio One Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Our daughter LOVES it!

I highly recommend this book! We're in the process of adopting a baby boy from Russia, and I searched for books that explain adoption to the sibling already at home. This book has been a great way to start to prepare our 3-year-old for a baby sibling who will arrive in a different way. It's about a little girl whose parents are adopting internationally - they travel without the little girl to bring home a baby girl, so the book also deals with separation while parents travel. It never mentions what country the baby is from, and it's easy to substitute "boy" as appropriate when reading. Our daughter now "reads" the book to herself because she knows it by heart, and tells everyone that she's adopting a baby brother from Russia.

Excellent preparation for kids whose parents travel to adopt

This is the first book our 22-month-old child ever asked me to read by name! My husband and I leave tomorrow for St. Petersburg, Russia to adopt our second child, and "Seeds of Love" has helped immeasurably to help us prepare our son for our absence and to help him anticipate being a big brother to his new baby sister. The book gently raises and answers many of the questions and concerns a child would have when anticipating being separated from his/her parents for an extended period of time. A must for brothers and sisters of international adoption!

An adoptive parent sees great potential in this book.

Ten years ago we adopted an infant girl from Korea. Her brother was 30 months old the day they met. For years our favorite adoption book was "Katie-Bo". This was very much the story of our adoption as known by our son and his preschool age cousins. SEEDS OF LOVE is a very similar book for any preschooler who will gain a sibling through adoption travel rather than airport meetings. The story told in SEEDS OF LOVE is one of happiness, sadness, confusion, and love. All of these emotions go with the process of adoption and with the process of having parents leave home. This book is important because it provides a clear story with a message of love for all children in a family. With small variations, this is the story of adoption as known by many preschool age siblings.