Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale

by Karen Katz, Karen Katz (Illustrator)

Overview

An affirming story about international adoption, based on the author's own experience with her daughter.

Over the Moon by Karen Katz is a magical, reassuring story of one adoptive family's beginnings, told in words and pictures that are just right for the youngest child. Featuring ilustrations by the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805067071
Publisher:	Square Fish
Publication date:	07/01/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Karen Katz has written and illustrated many books for children, including The Colors of Us, Can You Say Peace, My First Ramadan, Counting Kisses and Where is Baby's Belly Button. Long inspired by folk art from around the world, she was inspired to write Over the Moon, her first book, when she and her husband adopted their daughter from Guatemala, and she wanted to tell the story of welcoming Lena into their lives. Katz loves to paint and experiment with texture, color, collage and pattern. Besides an author and illustrator, she has been a costume designer, quilt maker, fabric artist and graphic designer. Katz and her family divide their time between New York City and Saugerties, New York.

Editorial Reviews

Both text and pictures are suffused with anticipation and joyful welcome at the baby's arrival.” —Kirkus Reviews, pointer

“An ebullient tribute for families whose members may have come from a faraway place.” —Publishers Weekly

“Katz's exuberance is contagious, bursting forth to make this as sunny as a warm summer day.” —Booklist

From the Publisher

A happy, colorful book about a man and woman dreaming of their soon-to-be-born adopted baby, receiving the news of her birth, and flying to the "faraway place" where they meet their child. Based on Katz's experience adopting a Central American infant and bright with mixed-media illustrations suggestive of folk art, this is a book for adults to use with children who were adopted in similar circumstances. The message is reassuring: "Forever and always we will be your mommy and daddy. Forever and always you will be our child." The birth mother is gently described as another lady in whose tummy "you grew like a flower," but who "wasn't able to take care of you, so Mommy and Daddy came to adopt you and bring you home." The baby has dark hair like the mother's and dark eyes like both parents' but with duskier skin than either. As in Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell's Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (1996), both text and pictures are suffused with anticipation and joyful welcome at the baby's arrival.

Kirkus Reviews