A Koala for Katie (Albert Whitman Concept Paperbacks) [Paperback]

Jonathan London (Author), Cynthia Jabar (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Series: Albert Whitman Concept Paperbacks

"Katie, a young adoptee, is curious about babies and where they come from. . . . Jabar's brightly colored illustrations add a coziness to London's reassuring text. A good choice for the parenting shelf, this will be most useful with preschoolers who have learned of their own adoptions."--Booklist. Full color.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807542105
• ISBN-13: 978-0807542101
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #974,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for adopted children, March 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: A Koala for Katie (Albert Whitman Concept Paperbacks) (Paperback)

My 3-yr old adopted daughter really likes this book. It is a good story and well written. The part where Katie becomes motherly toward the stuffed koala is very age appropriate for the 3-4 year olds.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, September 12, 2001

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Alyssa A. Lappen (Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Koala for Katie (Albert Whitman Concept Paperbacks) (Paperback)

Here's another of our son's adoption favorites. Like Katie, he wondered where babies come from, and why he came to his parents differently than most. He identifies strongly with Katie, whose trip to the zoo let him, early on, explore the adoption theme. He pulled this book from those I intended to review, exclaiming, "OOOOOOO! I love this book!"

The zoo will find a new mother for a baby koala that suddenly lost its own. Katie's parents compare this to the way that an adoption agency found parents for her when her birth parents could not care for her. Katie's parents buy her a stuffed koala, which she adopts to act out her concerns.

This is simply a great book for any child who was adopted, as well as for his siblings.

---Alyssa A. Lappen

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars children's adoption book, October 16, 2005

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Stacey Griffith (Issaquah,WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Koala for Katie (Albert Whitman Concept Paperbacks) (Paperback)

I agree with some of the other reviews in regards to the whole "real mommy" wording. This is something that has recently come up with our 6 yr old daughter. She wanted to know why her real mommy couldn't keep her. It's very important that these children understand that we are their "real" mom and dad's. That the mother that gave birth to them loved them and loves them very much, but that we are their mom's and dad's now and will always be. To me I just didn't love the wording. The illustration was great. Yet the story just didn't do it for me, or for our daughter.