Twice-Upon-A-Time: Born and Adopted (Paperback)

by Eleanora Patterson (Author) "Do you know how wonderful you are?..." (more)
Key Phrases: birth parents

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Product Description
Twice-Upon-A-Time is a unique adoption resource for young children, 3-8 years, and their families. Conception, birth and curiosity about birth parents are discussed as part of adopted children's stories. The book encompasses diverse adoption experiences using a text and line drawings that are simple, direct and affirming.

About the Author
Eleanora Patterson is a writer and poet, who lives and works in Vermont. She has authored 2 children's books.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: E. P. Press, Incorporated (February 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0960743219
• ISBN-13: 978-0960743216
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #713,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Home is the arms holding you, June 14, 2003

By	James "tigerblues" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

Sex education for 3-6yr olds should be simple but should also reassure that they started life like everyone else in the world. It goes on to say why birthparents could not be parents is about them and not about the child. Using simple almost coloring-book style outline drawings (which my son does love to color in) it tells how life began, how birth happens, that every child is born to a woman. It also avoids the "a man is in love with a woman" problem that I wanted to avoid and instead talks of biology of a man's sperm and womans egg joining. From there to the "that child is you" part are many places to talk about your child's own adoption. This book is suitable for young child as well as infant adoption and for children that have been in foster care too. The womb that floats on a page unconnected to a woman is harder to explain but over-all this is a good book, much less complicated than many.