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Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles
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It’s Cassidy—Li’s turn to be Star of the Week at school! So she’s making brownies and collecting photos for her poster. She has pictures of all the important people in her lifewith one big exception. Cassidy—Li, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn’t have a photo of her birthparents. But with a little help from her family, she comes up with the perfect way to include them! Using their own family’s story as a model, Darlene Friedman and Roger Roth celebrate the love of families
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October 19th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Review by Hilary S. Williams for Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles
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Darlene Friedman and Roger Roth are a great team. The writing and illustrations in this book communicate a loving and sensitive story of a child’s quest to come to terms with her adopted past…not an easy subject. As a teacher, I see this book as a vehicle for self discovery for my students. The story presents many meaningful writing opportunities for students to explore who they are and how their roots have an impact on their lives. As a parent, I think this book can show how difficult situations can be approached with love and honesty. I enjoyed the book very much, and I highly recommend it to adults and children of all ages.
October 19th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Review by Jennifer Jump for Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles
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Immediately after I read Star of the Week, I emailed Ms. Friedman to thank her and her husband for such a “lovely, touching, fun and honest book that I look forward to reading with my adopted son.” I also wrote that I hope they “collaborate on more adoptive picture books in the future!”
As a teacher of second graders for over thirteen years, I know how difficult “Star of the Week” can be for some students. I believe Ms. Friedman’s book will help open up the lines of communication for my son and others as well as show how wonderful and special the “Star of the Week” experience can be!
Today I am going to buy three more copies for my friends who also have children they adopted from Russia.
Thanks again Ms. Friedman!!!
October 19th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Review by A. Wells for Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles
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I collect children’s literature and this book is fabulous. It’s a perfect book to share with children whether they are adopted or not! It addresses questions that adopted children have and builds an understanding of what these issues may be for children who may have adopted friends or classmates. The illustrations just grab you! They capture the spirit of Cassidy-Li.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Review by Ken Mainrich for Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles
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Excellent picture book with an uplifting message that applies not only to adopted children, but also to the ever-growing number of other children whose family situations do not fit the “norm.”
Kids of all kinds will enjoy and take comfort in this story. The book’s picturesque settings and thought-provoking story make it a great “read” for parents and kids.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Review by KSL for Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles
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This is a wonderful book that brings up many questions and makes people think! I love how when talking about how Cassidy-li and her parents talked about the reasons why people can’t take care of their children and how regardless to how a child enters your family it doesn’t matter because we’re family. I like that they didn’t mention China’s 1 child rule. I love the illustrations also make this book so wonderful!
As an adoptive parent we made it through our 1st kindergarten ALL ABOUT ME poster – but it wasn’t blank but general sort of questions to fill in the blanks on favorite color, animal, how many people in my family and etc. It wasn’t has hard as having to create a poster on a blank sheet of paper. I am absolutely thrilled that 2 of the other reviewers are teachers and I hope that they are sharing this book with their other co-workers and other teachers out there. It is so important for teachers who do these types of assignments to be flexible when it comes to adopted or fostered students who are in their class. Maybe instead of a family tree project it could be a family home or apartment with different branches being different rooms, or a family garden or grafted tree adding in a China, Vietnam, Russian branch. I know this project is coming and I’m interested to see how my daughter will want to handle it. I hope she’ll include her birth parents as in a mention of my roots are in China, my husband thinks I’m making too much thought into this and basically when we adopted her she became our family there for becoming Hawaiian, English, Scottish-Irish, Dutch and German like we are. It’s her project and up to her and her teacher.
This book is a family affair! It was written by Darlene Friedman who is married to Roger Roth who illustrated this book and they have a daughter who is from China. I look forward to many more books by this terrific team! Congrats and keep those books coming!