We Wanted You by Liz Rosenberg is our favorite adoption story children's book so far. It is a beautiful story of a mom and dad who are getting ready for their baby (including paint the room) but a baby does not come. Then one day the phone rings and they are told to come get the baby! The story uses the words "first mom and dad" which has become the way we will refer to our children's birth parents in Ethiopia, their first Mommy and first Daddy. (We will be their forever Mommy and forever Daddy.) The story goes on to describe the way the parents love and take care of the child and how that makes them a family. It is a beautiful story that ends with the child going away to college but the parents letting him know that they still want him!More, More, More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams is three short stories with multicultural families, including a white gramma with an African American child.
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats has been a favorite story of Amy's since she first heard it read/acted out with puppets in her children's literature class in college. We have since come to learn that it was the first children's book published to feature an African American main character. the wonderful character of Peter appears again in several of Keats books.
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