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panda_incognito's review
3.0
This picture book has a lot of text, but the illustrations are beautiful, and the adoption-focused story is gentle and reassuring without engaging in excessive fantasy or casting the child's experience as a fairy tale. I appreciate the realistic portrayal of the tug that this girl feels between her love for her adoptive mother and her imagination about her biological mother, and this book also accounts for feeling different because of race.
However, because this story is specifically about a Chinese adoptee, it does not generalize to all adoption experiences. This book is best for international and trans-racial adoptees, and because part of the book engages specifically with China's one-child policy, this would be most relevant and helpful to children adopted from China.
However, because this story is specifically about a Chinese adoptee, it does not generalize to all adoption experiences. This book is best for international and trans-racial adoptees, and because part of the book engages specifically with China's one-child policy, this would be most relevant and helpful to children adopted from China.
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