Thanks for your input, much appreciated!

Adoption books that solely center the experience of adopters can cause huge problems throughout childhood for adoptees who feel like they need to prioritize their status as a "gift" to their parents and prioritize their parents' feelings of joy over than their own valid feelings of loss and grief or concern about their first families.

I recently read a great post at BooksforLittles.com that centered the experience of fostered and adopted children and allowed for a wider range of emotions than do most of these books. Please be sure that children see themselves centered in stories of adoption (as Polacco's does), not just the perspectives of the adopters who are so eager to adopt them.

I would love to see a book that also centers children who have lost siblings to adoption. My missing sisters were a big part of my childhood and my mother's experience with motherhood. Hopefully a publisher might see an opportunity there, too. For every adopted child, there is a family who has lost that child, and that story matters, too.

https://booksforlittles.com/centering-adoptees/