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I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Hardcover)
by Rose A. Lewis (Author) , Jane Dyer (Illustrator)
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Story, Picture books, Adoption, Ages 4-8, Children's book |
Market price: ¥ 178.00
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¥ 168.00
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Pre-order item, lead time 3-7 weeks upon payment [ COD term does not apply to pre-order items ] |
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Good for Gifts
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MSL Pointer Review:
A heart-touching story about the adoption of a little girl from china by a single female adopter which will strike a deep chord with both adoptive and normal family. |
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Author: Rose A. Lewis (Author) , Jane Dyer (Illustrator)
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. in: September, 2000
ISBN: 0316525383
Pages: 32
Measurements: 10.3 x 10.3 x 0.4 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00265
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It is a treasure of a book both for people considering international adoption, and also for those looking at domestic adoption as well. A simple and touching story that tells about the joy all parents feel when meeting their children for the first time, be it through birth or adoption. This was a truly heartwarming story.
This touching love story, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes will warm the cockles of any new parent's heart, especially those who have recently adopted a child. It's an ideal story for lap-time reading, and will inspire parents and kids to talk about their own first "meetings," whether at birth or in an adoption agency. Jane Dyer, illustrator of the bestselling Time for Bed by Mem Fox, Oh My Baby, Little One by Kathi Appelt, and many other marvelous picture books, uses a pastel palette of watercolors to capture the tender moments between the American mom and her rosy-cheeked Chinese baby.
Mother-love is profound however a baby comes into a woman's life. For Rose Lewis, the journey to motherhood begins with a letter to Chinese officials, asking if she can adopt from the "big room with lots of other babies." Each infant in that room in China is missing a mother, but Lewis is missing something, too-a baby. She travels to China to meet her new little girl and falls head over heels in love. Taking her baby home to America, Lewis introduces her to all her family and friends, and they begin their life together. From first photographs and tears to home visitors and lullabies, one can't help but become fond of the new parent and child. Dyer's simple watercolor layouts with expressive characters make this a calming read, befitting the gentle affection in the text. The final page illustrates the Chinese character for "love. The illustrations are lovely and dreamy...as a storybook should be. Short and easy to read, it's destined to become a bedtime classic.
Target readers:
Baby-Preschool
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Rose Lewis has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. An accomplished still photographer and an award-winning producer for WCVB-TV in Boston, she lives with her daughter in Massachusetts.
Jane Dyer is the illustrator of her own anthology, Animal Crackers, Time for Bed, by Mem Fox; Child of Faerie, Child of Earth, by Jane Yolen; Here Is My Heart: Love Poems, selected by William Jay Smith; and Blue Moon Soup: A Family Cookbook, with recipes by Gary Goss. Jane Dyer lives in Massachusetts.
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Based on the author's own experience, this heartfelt story follows a woman on her journey to adopt a baby girl from China. From paperwork to plane flight, the narrative chronicles the baby's trip from a crib in a big room shared with many other babies to her own crib in her own room in her new room. Jane Dyer's delicate watercolors perfectly complement this charming text, a celebration of the love and joy a baby brings into the world.
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Gisela Gasper (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
I didn't care what was inside this book. I had already fallen in love with its cover! And then more joy upon looking at the adorable illustrations and the author's simple, loving words describing her journey to China and picking up her baby girl. This is a book with few pages but volumes of enchantment and love. I am an adoptive mother, and our little girl was 4 days young when we brought her into our house. I felt the same joy Rose Lewis expressed. I especially liked Lewis's feelings for the Chinese mother who could not keep her baby. I too cried tears for our unknown birthmother and like Lewis hoped that somehow the grieving mother knew her child was safe. Even though Lewis described her love for a Chinese baby, her book speaks equally well to anyone who adopts a baby anywhere in the world. I wish her book had been available when our little girl grew up. Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of adoption: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice? |
Julie Jordan (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
One of my favorite roles as a parent is introducing my children to families of many types. In I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, my children can understand that sometimes Mommy’s and Babies become a family by being united via airplanes and adoption officials and guess what? The amazing love is the same. I especially loved that the author shared the gratitude and love for the "other" mother who provided the gift of this baby into her life. Beautifully stated and at times, overlooked. The illustrations must be mentioned also: they are stunningly beautiful with the emotions of the subjects literally entering my heart from the page. |
V. S. Smit (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
A lovely book about the adoption of a little girl from china by a single female adopter. Nice pictures and an easy way to make the adoption story part of 'happy bed time stories'. The words are those you would probably use to discuss where an adopted child came from if your daughter asked you. |
J. Cornett (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
My wife and I purchased this little book as a gift to our new Granddaughter who was recently adopted in China by our son and his wife (my wife and grandson also accompanied them on the trip). We loved the way it was written and it seems to be an accurate, easy to understand description of the entire process that we hope will help her better understand her roots. Our hope is that our Granddaughter will enjoy reading it one day and will treasure it forever. Her parents want her Chinese heritage to always be part of her life and this little book should help in that goal. Very sweet little book. |
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