adoption book fair: the wild rumpus

Today was fun!  I went to an adoption book fair at The Wild Rumpus bookstore in Minneapolis.  Here is a link to their website if you are interested in finding out more about this fun little children’s book shop. They have a regular “tale time” every monday at 10:30 am where they will read to your children.  The store is inhabited by several cats, a chicken (yes that is a chicken on the counter in that picture up there), and a wise lizard named Spike.

They were hosting an adoption book fair today from 12 - 5:00 pm where our agency received a percentage of the proceeds from each sale.  It was great fun.  I asked my friend Tiffany to come along, and we both got some fun books to share with our families...her current, and my future one!  Here’s my short book review:  The I Love You Book by Todd Parr reminds us how much we love our children in every part of life, mostly because of the way that they are!  My Family Is Forever by Nancy Carlson is a great book written from the perspective of an adoptee, and her understanding of what being adopted means.  It’s a very sweet little book that will hopefully provide young readers the understanding of the security that they can feel within a family, no matter how it came to be.  The Colors of Us by Karen Katz is a fun book that draws attention the the subtle differences in the tones of everyone’s skin, and that it’s really cool to notice and validate how different we all look.  There are many shades of skin that resemble colors of food, and that is what is described in this book.  Lastly, Fire On The Mountain written by Jane Kurtz is an Ethiopian folk tale.  In the culture the older folks share a lot of stories like this one to teach life lessons to their kids.  They are reminiscent of fables.  This book has amazing illustrations...warm and beautiful.

We splurged and got a scoop of ice-cream at Sebastian Joe’s afterward...it’s right around the corner from the book shop.

I hope and pray these books will add to our little one’s life, and that as we read them together they will spawn conversations that will help us all as we journey toward oneness together.  

Thanks Tiff (for driving home!)