This story conveys a father's perspective about adoption. To this end, the often complex adoption process is simplified to help moms and dads describe "what happened" to their children. Mr. Busby says "It is a picture book, designed as a vehicle to gently explain how families come together through adoption." In sharing his personal story, the author hopes to provide a starting point for discussions between other parents and their daughters from China. The author hopes that other adoptive families will find the picture book helpful as a facilitative tool as they tell their own family stories. The story is punctuated with several questions to elicit imaginative responses from children about what they think the little girl might do when she gets older. The author hopes you enjoy Carson's Book, one of many storys of the little girls that come from China to become members of famlies in locations throughout the world.
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Words from the author Richard Busby: The idea for this book came as I sat in one of the latter sessions in a day long adoption conference. The question I wanted to answer was simply. "How will I describe this adoption process to my daughter?" The story formed as I reflected on my own experience. For me, the adoption was a journey into the unknown, with clarity unfolding as I moved through the process. My wish for my daughter is that she sees adoption as simply the actions taken to form our family... not something that takes undue prominence in her life. I love being a dad to Carson. My wife loves being her mom. Carson loves us in return. There is only one thing better.... expanding our family through another adoption process! Words from the Illustrator: Phil Marcelo is delighted to be Dad to both Nathan and Maggie and lucky husband to Karen - all gifts to him from the Big Daddy above. Like Rich, Phil's daughter blessed his family through adoption. Many years prior to fatherhood, Phil worked with Rich and a friendship was formed. Fast-forward through the first years of their marriages, and Rich asked him to illustrate this personal project. Grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this special book, Phil looks at this project as a way to share the Busby's adoption experience with others and hopefully provide encouragement to interested parents-to-be, insight to those unfamiliar with adoption, and fun pictures to engage kids in the greater story of adoption. When not changing diapers or taking imaginary train rides with stuffed animals, Phil can be found designing magazine layouts, churning out cool graphics, or getting lesson plans ready for his design class.
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Carson's Book- a treat for us all.,
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This review is from: Carson's Book: A story about adoption from China (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book, that is, as the etymology of the word says, full of wonder. It is told from the heart about one family's process that is full of all kinds of twists and turns, yet is also about all of our stories. As an adoptive parent of a wonderful daughter from China myself, I found the book remarkably warm, candid, and poignant. The pictures are great, the writing superb; a wonderful combination of two people who (from the outside look as if they) obviously enjoyed the process of working together.
This is a book for all those who already have or are thinking about adoption from any country. It is not the country of origin that matters in this book, but the wonderful story of the process and the resulting children who bless us and enrich our lives. I never write reviews for books for a number of reasons; this is the first exception to my policy. I could not think of a better reason to make an exception.
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