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After an adoptive mother tells her daughter all the reasons that she is her "real mother," the young girl realizes that her mother is right, even though they do not look alike.
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Molly Friedrich is a literary agent with the Aaron Priest Literary Agency. She represents a wide range of authors, including Frank McCourt and best-selling children's author Jean Marzollo. She and her husband have four children: Julia, Lucy, P-Quy, who was born in Vietnam, and Fernando, who was born in Guatemala. You Are Not My Real Mother is her first book.
Christy Hale is a freelance art director, designer, and artist. She has illustrated a number of books for children including the award-winning Elizabeti series by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, The Complete Poems to Solve by May Swenson, and Who's in the Hall: A Mystery in Four Chapters by Betsy Hearne.
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PreS. Families experienced in transracial adoption will want this picture book, which beautifully captures the intimate, loving bond between parent and child and the moment when the child first confronts the fact that she looks different from her parent. Mom is blond. Her brown-skinned child looks Asian or mixed race. The exuberant pictures show the fun they have together and the love they share as they cook, drive to pick up a toy bear the child left with a friend, and play with their puppy. Mom teaches her daughter the alphabet and how to tie her shoes and brush her teeth, and when the child falls, Mom puts 20 bandages on the bruised knee. Framed by all the fun is that central question: "I know you love me, Mom. But why don't you look like me?" Mom explains about the birth mother ("She started your life, and I am thankful to her every day for that"), and finally, the child celebrates her "kiss-smothering" real mother. Hazel Rochman
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- PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0316605530
- ISBN 13 9780316605533
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorHale Christy
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