Is That Your Sister?: A True Story of Adoption (Hardcover)

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Product Description

An adopted six-year-old girl tells about adoption and how she and her adopted sister feel about it.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Our Child Press (May 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961187263
• ISBN-13: 978-0961187262
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #400,098 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great book, April 25, 2000

By A Customer

This is a great book that incorporates two issues that children often have to deal with: adaption and racial issues. The book, told in the first person, focuses on two adapted children of two different cultural backgrounds. Highly reccommended--it will teach your children that not everybody in the world is the same.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars our favorite family adoption book, November 14, 2007

By	Chris (Havelock, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Is That Your Sister? (Hardcover)

I did not anticipate that I would love this book as much as I do.
Most adoption books do not really "fit" our family for several reasons.
Our children are adopted through the county, so we were not chosen
by the birth parents, didn't get to meet them, etc. Our children
are a different ethnic background, we adopted siblings, etc. Our situation
is much different from that described in most children's adoption books.
When I got the book today, it didn't seem like much. I wasn't prepared
for a story that would seem so much likes ours. I did a quick read
thru before reading it with our kids (ages 10,8,6 and 1). I didn't make
it thru without crying. It felt like my child wrote it.
I am so excited to find a book FINALLY that fits, and that our kids
can relate to. I am considering sending a copy to a few families close
to us.
One of the best things about the book is that the adoptive mother
and adopted daughter wrote the book together. It is written from the
point of view of the child, 6 yrs old. The recommended age is 4-8 yrs,
but it was totally appropriate for my 10 yr old son. I think it is ever
so much more touching because it is written as the daughter telling
you the story, and what an awesome experience for a mother and
daughter to go through together--writing a book like this together!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great adoption book from childs' view, March 14, 2009

By	Katrine M. Hoyt "Music in Wonderland" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book cuts out all the adult psycho-babble and goes right to the day to day issues that the adopted child faces in terms a child can relate to.