Cover of The Day We Met You

The Day We Met You

Step by loving step, a couple prepares their home for the arrival of their adopted baby. "When the happy couple holds their smiling infant for the first time ... the joy is almost palpable". — Publishers Weekly. "Adopted children love to hear their homecoming stories over and over, and this is a perfect book to encourage such retellings". — School Library Journal.Includes an Afterword that provides parents with guidance about how and when to explain adoption to their children.

Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 32 pages

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