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DiDio's children's picture book encourages families to make space for all the emotions that accompany adoption. She prompts adoptive parents to allow their children to give a voice to their innermost thoughts and feelings. - Quinn P. Cummings, For The Love of Children's Books; Home of the Parenting & Bonding with Children Books Show & Creators of the E.N.G.A.G.E. Method A great book for those who have adopted children and want them to know it's ok to wonder about their past. This book covers feelings of belonging, not looking like other family members, questions about birth mothers and accepting that wondering about your past is a part of life. Another beautifully written and illustrated book for adoptive parents. - Liane Joly, Children's Book Author @fostercare.adoptionbooks As the adoptive mother of two now-young adults adopted as babies from Guatemala, I ...admire the way How I Wonder addresses the complexity of adoption-how triggering the dreaded family tree project ...can be for kids who may not know their whole stories. A lovely addition to the adoption library. - Jessica O'Dwyer, author of Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir Very helpful to address ambiguous grief from an adoptee's viewpoint, and also to stress the importance of adoptive parents cultivating a sense of openness, curiosity, and trust so that they can walk alongside their adoptee. This book acknowledges the BothAnd of adoption -- both its gains and its losses, which resonates for so many with the actual experience of being adopted. - Lori Holden (Lavender Luz), author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption. Anna Maria has a definite understanding of both adoptee and adopter (as do I) which is rare in an author. Having read both to myself and to my son I think they will become invaluable in his ongoing understanding of his own adoption and his feelings around it. - Black Sheep, transracial adoptee, adopter, author of Black Sheep Sweet Dreams Adoption Journal

"DiDio's children's picture book encourages families to make space for all the emotions that accompany adoption. She prompts adoptive parents to allow their children to give a voice to their innermost thoughts and feelings. - Quinn P. Cummings, For The Love of Children's Books; Home of the Parenting & Bonding with Children Books Show & Creators of the E.N.G.A.G.E. Method A great book for those who have adopted children and want them to know it's ok to wonder about their past. This book covers feelings of belonging, not looking like other family members, questions about birth mothers and accepting that wondering about your past is a part of life. Another beautifully written and illustrated book for adoptive parents. - Liane Joly, Children's Book Author @fostercare.adoptionbooks As the adoptive mother of two now-young adults adopted as babies from Guatemala, I ...admire the way ""How I Wonder"" addresses the complexity of adoption-how triggering the ""dreaded family tree project"" ...can be for kids who may not know their whole stories. A lovely addition to the adoption library. - Jessica O'Dwyer, author of ""Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir"" Very helpful to address ambiguous grief from an adoptee's viewpoint, and also to stress the importance of adoptive parents cultivating a sense of openness, curiosity, and trust so that they can walk alongside their adoptee. This book acknowledges the BothAnd of adoption -- both its gains and its losses, which resonates for so many with the actual experience of being adopted. - Lori Holden (Lavender Luz), author of ""The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption."" Anna Maria has a definite understanding of both adoptee and adopter (as do I) which is rare in an author. Having read both to myself and to my son I think they will become invaluable in his ongoing understanding of his own adoption and his feelings around it. - Black Sheep, transracial adoptee, adopter, author of Black Sheep Sweet Dreams Adoption Journal"

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Anna Maria DiDio, MSW an adoptive mother, was inspired to write her memoir, Love at the Border, An Adoption Adventure after her own family journey. Now her L.I.F.E.* Adventures children's books feature stories about adoption, foster care, stepchildren, and all blended families from the point of view of the child. Anna Maria hopes that her books encourage open and honest exploration about what children are thinking and feeling within their own unique families. She can be found at home in Philadelphia walking everywhere, swimming laps, reading biographies, or baking chocolate chip cookies except when traveling to new and exciting places with her husband Richard.*Love Inspires Families Everywhere Tatiana Lobanova was born in Moscow, Russia, and discovered a love of drawing as a young girl. ""Tanya"" trained in art school and also theatre college. Upon graduation, she worked within the theatrical community as an artist and stage designer, constantly perfecting her technique for illustration and classical painting. Tanya currently works full-time as a freelance illustrator. Tanya loves gardening and amateur ballet and lives in The Hague, the Netherlands with her husband Andrey and two children.

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