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Who Are My Real Parents?

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This is a great book for adopted kids and adoptive parents. I think it will help us with any insecure feelings we as adoptive parents have about not being the "real" parents, or worrying about our adopted kids not seeing us as the "real" parents in the future. There was a great need for this book, and we're so glad it was out there!

This book has a good message for children who were adopted. My daughter was adopted and has me read this book to her every night. She likes the simple pictures in the book. I can't recommend this book enough for children who were adopted.

My daughter loves books about animals and this is one of her favorite. She was adopted from China and the book has a nice and subtle message for her. It gives her an early lesson that parents are the people who love and care for you.

Having had the privilege of communicating with the author and learning of the experiences of others who have adopted, I can tell you he speaks from the heart of a loving parent. It matters not that his daughter is not "biological", it matters that he loves her as a father should love a child, and it is evidenced in this simple yet beautiful story of parents for their adopted child. In language the youngest of children can grasp, it explains that a parents' love isn't dependent on any aspect of their children--their race, color of their hair, shape of their eyes, abilities or lack of them--that a real parent loves their child. Period. A must-read for adoptive parents, adopted children, and those outside the process who question how someone can love a child "not their own".

Around the same time that we were nearing the final stages of the horror film compendium that we were collaborating on, HORROR 101: The A-List of Horror Films and Monster Movies, Mr. Fuller shared his POLLY PANDA book with me. My girlfriend - who has an adopted brother from Vietnam - read it over my shoulder and by the time we had finished, was weeping tears of joy. "He really gets it," she said, and I couldn't agree more. Danny has managed to distill what it really means to be a family - that it is LOVE rather than blood that creates the connections that last. There is handmade charm to the illustrations and the simple storyline mines deep emotions and should spark conversations between parents and their children, as well as promoting understanding for youngsters when they see that their friends' parents look "different" than they would have expected.

I can't recommend WHO ARE MY REAL PARENTS? enough.

It is nice not to put a color in the adoption. It is the story that even though the mommy and daddy may not look the same as baby they are still a family.

We are a transracial adoptive family and I recently introduced this book to my son, just 5. He knows he is adopted, but it will be years before he fully understands what that means. Until then, he still has to deal with questions about why our family looks different, and books like this are very reassuring. This book in particular is simple and straightforward. The child looks different from the parents, so she wants to know who her "real" parents are. The book addresses that one question only, not why she is different, or how the family came to be. I took off one star for the glaring typos and the $12 price.

While I personally haven't lived the situation of adopting a child (I'm still unprepared to be a father), I know people who have, and no matter how loving the parents are, there's a question that eventually the children will make as he/she grows up: "Who are my real parents?". That's the question that little bear Polly asks when her best friend Enchilada tells her that she, a panda bear, doesn't look at all like her parents, a couple of brown bears, and so she begins to wonder who truly is her real family.

Using the lovable character of Polly Panda, author Daniel Fuller has written a charming little book that certainly can be of great help for parents of adopted children, as in a very simple and fun manner it explains to kids that what truly matters is not the genetics, but the love of those who really care for one. It's a simple fable but Daniel Fuller's writing makes easy to feel identified with the characters, and while this book may lack the look that a book printed by a big name publisher, the contents of this book are of great value, as this a book done with the heart.

As the mom of an adopted child, I try to find a lot of different books on adoption and fostering. This is a sweet and simple tale, and my daughter really enjoyed it. The typo is on page 14, where: Mr. Green then asked, "When you have are hurt, who gives you a hug?"

So, now I am wondering how to get creative and edit this page so that it makes sense. It seems odd that no one caught that before it was published.

This is both an excellent educational tool and a fun read for you and your child, if and when you have to make that big decision to tell your child they are adopted, this is a publication that will assist a parent immensely and make the child identify with the characters in a painless and comfortabe way. Its also just a very good bedtime read to boot.