A Mom: What is an Adoptive Mother?

by Betsy Wilhelm, Carolyn Wilhelm, Pieter Els (Illustrator)

Overview

What is a mother? A mother is the same whether children are adopted or biological. In this story, the child has been adopted. It is written from the viewpoint of the child to help explain a mother is the same in any family. Mom helps check under the bed for monsters, reads books, and watches movies with the girl. She does the same things every mother does. Visually, the images show a white mother and Asian child adopted from South Korea to Minnesota.

Mothers are the same, but some children require more patience than other children. Parents know different children need different things. Parenting is not one-size-fits-all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999776650
Publisher:	Carolyn Wilhelm
Publication date:	02/13/2020
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.05(d)
Lexile:	600L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

I. Reid is Betsy Wilhelm’s pen name. She is an insatiably curious, overeducated homo sapiens who much to the dismay of family and friends has never outgrown the why phase (or how phase if applied to how a thing works). As I. Reid is gainfully employed and considered a productive adult in polite society, I. Reid guest blogs on occasion guided by whatever is the curiosity of the nanosecond.

Carolyn Wilhelm is the author of The Wise Owl Factory site and blog. She has an MS in Gifted Education, a MA in Curriculum and Instruction K-12, and has finished the KHT Montessori 12-month program. She makes mostly free resources for teachers and parents. She writes the Wise Owl Factory curriculum and blog.

Editorial Reviews

Betsy Wilhelm happens to be adopted and looks quite different from her mother. Carolyn Wilhelm is the other half of this writing team who, as an educator, recognized the need for gentle stories about adoption and about interracial adoption in particular.

New Book Review - Carolyn Howard-Johnson