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Title:   Sophia's Broken Crayons: A Story of Surrogacy from a Young Child's Perspective by Crystal Falk Publisher: Amazon's digital Services Format: E-book Genre: Surrogacy, Children Synopsis:  Why is the sky blue? Why do dogs bark? When will I be tall? Where do babies come from? Kids ask a lot of questions. Some of them are easier to answer than others. Explaining why someone would choose to become a surrogate or why a family would choose a surrogate to help grow their family are even harder questions to answer. Sophia’s Broken Crayons can help you answer those questions.  (50)Review:  A simplistic story to explain surrogacy to a young child.  The book is geared toward ages 2-6 and would be great to help children of surrogates understand why the baby isn’t staying with them and also to help the child that is born through surrogacy understand the process.  It doesn’t get into great detail it just talks about how one family shared their tummy t...

Title:  Won Ton and Chopstick: A Cat and Dog Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw   Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Format: e-book (kindle fire) Pages: 40 pages Genre: Children Synopsis:  A new puppy arrives, and nothing will be the same. Told entirely in haiku and with plenty of catitude, the story of how Won Ton faces down the enemy is a fresh and funny twist on a familiar rivalry. (14) Review:  This is a fun little book about Won Ton the cat whose owner brings a puppy, Chopstick, home. Won Ton is not thrilled at all with the new addition and feels very displaced by his arrival.  He finally realizes that they have some things in common and that maybe this dog isn't so bad. This book is the 2nd in the Won Ton series and is written in  Haiku . I'm not quite sure why this book was listed under adoption other than it does explore the feelings of getting a new sibling and how siblings don't always look the same.  This may be a good book for f...