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My Family, My Journey: A Baby Book for Adoptive Families (Susie Ghahremani)
£13.60£14.20 (-4%)
For the growing audience of adoptive families, Chronicle Books is proud to offer a baby book thatsuits the wide array of experiences and choices that bring a family and their new child together. This lovely keepsake album contains sections to record all the joyful milestones and cherished family moments that mark a new baby’s life, pages to chart the adopted child’s unique journey, as well as a sturdy pocket in which to store important documents and memorabilia. Inside the pocket are over 60 stickers you can use to customize the family tree pages. As the pages of the journal fill with memories,My Family, My Journey will stand as a lasting testament of love for the entire family.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Chronicle Books, Illustrated edition (27 April 2007) |
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| Language | English |
| Diary | 48 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0811857379 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0811857376 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 2.22 x 24.13 cm |
by Sam
We first got this book back in 2015 for our first child and have now ordered it again as it’s such a lovely keep sake for younger children who have been adopted. Our little one loves to look back on his early days with us and this just captures some special moments
by Nanny
I am a foster carer and look after babies/children till they move to their adoptive parents and have been looking for a book like this for years. Baby record books are not suitable but this book is fantastic as it can be used as part of the baby/childs life story work and also helps the adoptive parents to feel more involved in their life during the introduction process. I gave the adoptive parents this book at the start of their introductions and they went straight home and started to fill it in, I have just ordered another copy to put away for next time. I would thoroughly recommend this book to all foster carers to give to adopters and to anyone adopting a child to record all the process and their feelings and it will bring joy to the adopted children when they are old enough to read it.
by N B
Brought as a gift to a wonderful couple who are adopting. This was the only version I could find for adopted children. The book is nice and the family tree at the back is great. The reason why I didn’t give 5 stars is because some of the pages are really driven towards babies (first smile etc) which ood adopting an older child may not be known. Would love to see a more generic version.
by Ottik
It is well thought out and beautifully illustrated. I just hope my little one gives me time to fill it. It is almost more important to do than similar books for birth children as recording their welcome into our home will help then understand themselves better. Thank you for thinking to do this book.
by Schneekloth
I bought two of these for my daughters, who we adopted aged 5 and 6. Although this is intended for babies, it works well for older children too. The book does refer to the “baby” quite often, but I tell my daughters that they are my babies, so that is fine. Baby’s first birthday can be the child’s first birthday in their new family etc. The illustrations are beautiful and we all love the books! The space for writing down memories is just right and it makes us write things down, which we would otherwise forget.
My only criticism is that the space for photos is very limited and too small for regular sized photos.
by J5555
This is a lovely book and one that fills the gap for adopters wanting a special book to store memories of their little one’s arrival. It is very similar to a standard baby book but has pages for things like ‘our family photo before you came to us’, ‘our first family photo with you’, ‘people who helped us to find you’, ‘our very first meeting’ and then lots of pages for memories of the first year with your child. The only page which may not be relevant to some adopters is the one about a baby shower – but you could just leave this blank.
There is nothing really baby specific about this book (other than baby shower page) so I would say this is suitable for those adopting children up to the age of maybe 5 or 6.
I would definitely recommend this book to those adopting a child/ren or even to family members wanting to buy a special gift for new adoptive parents.
by Kate Baggott
This is a fantastic book and keepsake for adoptive children.
Having looked all over the net this is the only book I could find which acted like a baby book biological parents would buy for their children. It is particularly sensitive to the differences adoption adds to the mix.
I like the section left for “those who aided your adoption” where we have put pictures of our social workers.
The only down side of this book is that it is quite Americanised ie there is a section for “baby shower” pictures, this is not such a British event.
On the whole a beautiful sensitive book which will document the addition of our child to our family.
by Dex
I brought this book for my new son. I looked at getting him a baby book but as I started filling it out it was asking lots of things that I didn’t know. Then a friend recommended this one. I must say I love it. It has pages about before he came home, what we did to get ready, how we found him, his celebration day, his first birthday with us. And it has the first 12 months with us. You can put a photo in every month and see how your child has grown. My little boy is only two now but he will often get it off the shelf and wants to look through at all the pictures. A fantastic book for all adopters to have. It also has two family trees in the back so you can do your family as well as birth family if you wanted too. There is also a keepsake pocket in the back which it nice to put bits in. Now any new adopters I meet the first thing I show them is this book and how good it is.