My Family Is Forever

This book was perfect for use in my environment. I was looking for a general book about adoption. I'm an Elementary School Counselor and a teacher asked me to come in her class and share some info about adoption. She had 3 kids in her class that were adopted and the kids were asking lots of questions. (The adoptive moms thought it would be cool if I'd come in and share some very general info so the teacher asked.) This book is perfect. Many of the books out there get too detailed and are meant to bring out the therapeutic issues that come up for adoptive children. Those books have their important purpose. This is a great first book for adoptive families to lead their child into the idea that they were adopted and general enough for general audiences too.

My 2 yr old daughter, adopted from China, enjoyed this book. Although I don't think she grasped the story behind it, she enjoyed the illustrations and would often open the book and page through it. It was a library book but we are considering adding it to our collection.

Our son, Joshua, was in his 2s and we wanted to introduce the fact that he was adopted in a bit more concrete way (since we talk about it openly with other people when he is around). I tried talking with him at bedtime, but he got very uncomfortable. I checked out a few books from the library, and this became one of his favorites quickly. Even though he is a boy and was a domestic adoption, he does like this book.