"Finding Joy"
'Joy' inspiring tale of adoption
November is National Adoption Month, and Hawai'i author Marion Coste's nationally published children's book comes just in time to celebrate.
"Finding Joy" tells the story of a Chinese girl given up by her birth parents, and an American woman's journey to adopt the child. The story opens with the infant's heartbroken mother and father wrapping the baby in a blanket and leaving her beneath a bridge with a note, "This is our Shu-Li. Please take care of her. No room for girls."
A stranger discovers the child and brings her to an orphanage, where caregivers offer warm milk and a soft bed. Meantime, in America, a husband and wife with grown children long for a new baby girl.
"FINDING JOY" BY MARION COSTE,
YONG CHEN ILLUSTRATOR;
AGES 4-8, BOYDS MILLS PRESS, $16.95
November is National Adoption Month, and Hawai'i author Marion Coste's nationally published children's book comes just in time to celebrate.
"Finding Joy" tells the story of a Chinese girl given up by her birth parents, and an American woman's journey to adopt the child. The story opens with the infant's heartbroken mother and father wrapping the baby in a blanket and leaving her beneath a bridge with a note, "This is our Shu-Li. Please take care of her. No room for girls."
A stranger discovers the child and brings her to an orphanage, where caregivers offer warm milk and a soft bed. Meantime, in America, a husband and wife with grown children long for a new baby girl.
"FINDING JOY" BY MARION COSTE,
YONG CHEN ILLUSTRATOR;
AGES 4-8, BOYDS MILLS PRESS, $16.95
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