Be My Baby: Parents & Children Talk About Adoption

by Gail Kinn

With insight and emotion, Be My Baby dramatizes the deeply felt bonds and life-affirming experiences that are at the heart of an adoptive family. Told through the voices of adoptive parents, their children (young and grown-up) and birth mothers, and accompanied by stunning photographs, it offers a luminous portrait of family life in the tradition of such best-selling books as Best Friends and Sisters.

With over thirty first-person accounts, including such notable adoptive parents as Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest and Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub, Be My Baby evocatively portrays the rich variety of adoption arrangements and experiences.

Genres: Adoption

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Nancy Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loaned to me by a woman in my building after we talked about adopted children, grandchildren, etc. Very moving stories of people who adopted, as well as accounts from the adoptees themselves (at varying ages) and some accounts from the birth mothers. A good compendium with good photography.

[Azurdee Jenson]

LOVED this book. Read it in one night. Would love to own it someday. Beautiful photos accompanied by the feelings of moms and dads who have adopted along with the feelings of adopted children from all ages. It felt nice to have people to relate to and understand some of the feelings I experience as well as what to look for in Janika in the future. Excellent!

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some nice stories from various viewpoints: biological parents, adoptive parents, adoptees.