| In simple, heartfelt language, a woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. The story of that journey, based on the author's own experiences, is a celebration of the love and joy a baby brings into the home. Full-color illustrations.
From the Publisher
Nearly everyone knows someone who has adopted a child, and more and more of these adoptions happen internationally. In simple, heartfelt language, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes tells the story of how one mother found her baby daughter by travelling to China. The story of that journey is a celebration of the love and joy a baby brings into the home. Infused with maternal love, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes features soft watercolors by bestselling artist Jane Dyer.
Library of Congress Brief Description
A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences.
From Publishers Weekly
Lewis's sweetly sentimental picture-book debut plays out like a love letter to her adopted Chinese daughter. As she recalls the events leading up to their first meeting ("I had been waiting for you my whole life")--the letters to foreign officials, the baby picture she received, the flight to China with other excited soon-to-be parents--and describes their joyous homecoming, she taps into a well of genuine emotion, not surprisingly, since her account is based on her own experience. Like Jamie Lee Curtis's Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, the book offers abundant reassurances of love to adopted children, even if at times it seems more concerned with the feelings of the adult narrator than with those of the child ("How did someone make this perfect match a world away? Did the Chinese people have a special window to my soul?"). Dyer's (When Mama Comes Home Tonight) watercolors are almost meltingly tender. Whether depicting an airplane soaring against a star-spangled night sky, a round-cheeked child enthralled with a room full of toys or an embrace shared by the newly bonded mother and child, the clear, bright colors and clean lines of her portraits are immensely appealing. Ages 4-8.
Annotation:
Based on her own experience of adopting a delightful baby girl from China, Rose Lewis shares a story about adoption, gorgeously illustrated with Jane Dyer's wonderful watercolors. While including many of the details that are part of the arduous process, Lewis infuses everything with an intense motherly love that radiates from every page.
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