Ages 7-10.Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 10/1/1995 Pages: 480 Reading Level: Age 7 and Up

    - Includes information on foreign adoptions- Also available: Parenting the Hurt Child

    It includes plenty of tips on bridging the cultural gap. It covers various Ethiopia's national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

    Fred Rogers opens the door for adopted children and their parents to safely talk about their good and sometimes not-so-good feelings in a book about the joy of belonging and the love that unites families.?Rogers? unaffected delivery has a way of making scary things unscary, which should help parents as much as kids.? --The Bulletin of the Center for Children?s Books?The premise of this book?that it is good for families to talk about feelings?is a welcome one to apply to the subject of adoption.? --School Library Journal

    Explaining in very simple terms why some parents cannot care for their children, and would choose to place them for adoption, this helpful collection of case studies also shows photographs of real adoptive parents who cannot bear children of their own, and introduces the idea that adults have often been adopted too.