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After reading 3 five star reviews, I thought I'd love this book for my 5 year old girl adopted from China. But I think I'm sending it back. I've heard Sherri Eldridge speak in person and thought this would be a good book, but it just strikes me funny. Its a strange book in several ways. Three specific things sit wrong with me: at one point, Lucie (the star of the story) wonders if the baby inside her aunt is pooping and then she wonderings "where did the poop go? did it turn into pizza?" What???? I know kids tend toward potty humor, but this is just gross in my opinion. In another scene, Lucie is upset and is sitting on her mom's lap. Then the book says "Unbuttoning her shirt, she (mom) tucked it around Lucied with they rocked back and forth, back & forth." This is not behavior we practice in our house and I'm not quite sure how to explain it to my daughter. Third, on the same page Lucie wonders if there are fish in the water around her aunts baby, and the book shows a picture of the baby in the womb with fish swimming around him. My daughter is too literal for this type of picture -- reproduction is confusing enough without putting in confusing pictures! Overall, I feel this isn't a well written children's book - its one of those books written by someone who wants to be a children's author but just isn't even though they have a great message (not the likes of Karma Wilson or Felicia Bond or Kevin Henkes etc. etc.) I feel the same way about the Shaoey & Dot books even though I love Steven Curtis Chapman. I wish an accomplished children's author would write a great adoption book! Anyhow, this isn't a terrible book, but not a great one either in my opionion. Probably good compared to what's out there overall, but for me I've decided to send it back to Amazon and order "How I was Adopted" by Joanna Cole.

I bought this book because my husband and are in the middle of the adoption process. In the meantime, I read it to my 5-year-old niece who had been adopted. She liked it, but didn't fully understand it because she hasn't been raised with a birth story. This is a good book for children who know words like birthmother.

My girls, adopted from China and now 8 and 6, love this book and request it again and again. They relate to the fingerprint connection with birthmom. For kids who know nothing about their birthfamilies and roots, this offers them a very real connection to a birth mom they may never know.I love books that offer more ways to start a conversation about adoption, birthfamilies and feelings, as well as give the message to our kids that the loss part of adoption and any grief they may feel is okay to discuss. Thank you, Sherrie for writing one for the kids!!

This is a cute story with some truth behind the story and an easy way to explain to an adoptive child how they are connected to their birth parents. Our 7 year old enjoyed the book and loves to read. I did find the story written more for a young child as it's too silly for me and a little bit silly for our serious 7 year old.

lovely book!

too complicated, too wordy. I thought this book would be good for my young elementary aged kids- but it was not at their level of understanding.

Our adopted daughter was eager to read and "do" the Forever Fingerprints book she received as a gift. What I didn't expect was the eagerness of her brother to join in as the three of us used the accompanying pad to stamp and examine our fingerprints. The message was loud and clear--we're all unique and yet we share so much in common.I also appreciated the natural weaving in of important truths about how babies grow and are born. Being adopted is a way of entering a family--but we're all born the same way.The pictures are great--and the focus on hands instead of faces makes the book even more intriguing as well as inclusive. It's not a book about a particular kind of adoption--it's about a girl who is adopted and could be any girl.This book will be wonderful to revisit and to share.

Having read the book, and read back to me by my adopted son, I would say this book does not give adopted kids a good image of where adopted kids come from.There are times when the book get into too much details, it almost sounded like this is more for adults than young children.