Rose A. Lewis

Emmett would have been more patient with this sweet diaspora story if it had understood that when you put a bus on the cover of your book kids expect a goddamn bus inside too.

This book is absolutely incredible. It tells the story of a mother who adopts a little girl from China. The story is written as if the mother is speaking to her daughter and telling her what happened. It is a beautiful and very realistic tale of the beauty of adoption. This is a great book to read to adopted children in any setting.

Mother-love is profound, however a baby comes into a woman's life. For Rose Lewis, the journey to motherhood begins with a letter to Chinese officials, asking if she can adopt from the "big room with lots of other babies." The infants in that room in China are each missing a mother, but Lewis is missing something, too--a baby. She travels to China to meet her new little girl and falls head over heels in love. Taking her baby home to America, Lewis introduces her to all her family and show more friends, and they begin their life together. show less

I thought this was a great story! The central message of the story is that adoption is great, and can help make families. I love this story because of its plot. A woman travels all the way to China to adopt a baby girl. The woman proclaims her love for the baby in a variety of ways. In addition, I love the illustrations. Each page has a light yellow background which causes the reader to draw his or her eyes to the main focus on each page. For instance, my eye went right to the baby girl when show more she in sitting on the bed. Another reason why I loved this story is because of the way the author wrote it. In this story, the author is the main character, the mother. She placed herself into the story, and it is almost like she is writing a letter to her daughter about how thankful she is to have been able to adopt her. The last reason I enjoyed this story is because it is written about a great topic. Readers can see that adoption is not a bad thing, and that the adopting parents genuinely care about their child. show less