This is a fun book about re-telling a child about the night they were born. Also, it introduces humor that is suitable & understandable to young readers. A great book to read aloud! ( )

This story is about a girl who is adopted. She wants her mom and dad to tell her the story about when she was born.

I love the fact that this book deals with real life situations. such as adoption.

I would use this book in the classroom when I was doing a section over families. It would be good for students to know about adoption and why mothers choose it sometimes. Also, the we could have a discussion about how families are the people who love and take care of you and not every family is alike. ( )

The story is about a little girl who asks her mom and dad to tell her of the night she was born. Through the journey of the story it is slowly revealed that the little girl telling the story is adopted. The story presents the view of the child: "mommy and daddy." "Tell me again how you couldn't grow a baby in your tummy, so another woman who was too young to take care of me was growing me and she would be my birth mother, and you would adopt me and be my parents."

I was very surprised she was adopted. My life experiences led me to believe she was telling her recollection of how she was born--the way it might be explained or dreamed by a child of four to six years old. The pictures and sense of anticipation created by the writer is great and is felt when reading the story. This book introduces the fact that not all children grow up the same way. Families consist of different backgrounds and foundations.

In the classroom, I would introduce this book as a way to help answer questions of children if a student were adopted. This book could begin a family unit of study. The children would be asked to sit down with their parents/guardians to find out about the time they were born.

This is a very cute picture book. For young children, it tells about adoption in a way they can understand as well as being a birth story. Adults will enjoy the little jokes in the text that children are unlikely to get as well as some funny details in the pictures (spot the septuplet set, for example).

Nice story of adoption - charming illustrations - loving look at another way that families are created.