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I Don't Have Your Eyes | 
 enlarge | Author: Carrie A. Kitze
Publisher: EMK Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 93159
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0972624422
EAN: 9780972624428
ASIN: 0972624422
Publication Date: November 2003
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Product Description
Family connections are vitally important to children as they begin to find their place in the world. For transracial and transcultural adoptees, domestic adoptees, and for children in foster care or kinship placements, celebrating the differences within their families as well as the similarities that connect them, is the foundation for belonging. As parents or caregivers, we can strengthen our childrens tie to family and embrace the differences that make them unique. Each child will have their own story and their own special place to belong. This beautifully illustrated and uplifting book, for the 2-5 set, will help to create the intimate parent/caregiver and child bond that is so important. While others may notice the physical differences between us on the outside, inside we are the same.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Sweet Book, Nice Message December 24, 2008
This was a very nice book about different races and adoption. NOT the best book I have seen. It lacked something that I cannot put my finger on.
somehow made me sad December 5, 2008
hi, as others have said, this is a beautiful book with a beautiful sentiment about love and bonding in adoptive families. But it made me so unhappy reading it, and then of course I had to figure out why.
And my thought is, that the "I don't ....." sections on each page emphasize the child's difference and separateness from the adoptive family, and the juxtaposition seems (to me) to make it seem as though the "but I have ...." sections are supposed to be in compensation. So - I think I would have given this 5 stars if the text had emphasized the shared parts and commonality between child and family, while making the differences obvious in pictures only or else not starting each page with the difference/separateness.
 Great adoption book November 4, 2008
I bought this book for my adopted niece. Couldn't be happier with it. It really lets her know how much she is loved. If you want another family fairytale, you may want to purchase The Wallace Dream: The Adventures of the Baby Seekers Both books are great.
It Warms My Heart April 28, 2008
My five-and-a-half year old and I read this book recently (after a conversation about ways we look the same and ways we don't, and ways she might look like her birthparents and ways she might look like me). At the end of the book, she said, "That warms my heart. Can we read it again?" Tonight, she said, "Can we read that book that made my heart warm?"
I agree with some other reviewers: if you're not a family that prays together, the praying page is a little awkward, but still, nice to illustrate the variety of things families do.
 nice text, weird illustrations September 10, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is chock full of really lovely sentiment regarding how similar we are ... on the inside...(gross paraphrase)
Unfortunately, the illustrations are freakish. I don't know how else to characterize them. My kids were totally turned off by the way people looked in the story. The mom on the first page looks like one of those dolls with the blue eyes that open and close.
On the other hand, I could see that my 10 year old was intrigued by the text. She couldn't stand the illustrations, though.
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