A Koala for Katie

by Jonathan London

Book Overview

As four-year-old Katie and her parents visit the zoo, Katie wonders aloud where babies come from. She knows that she is adopted and wonders if the baby koala could be happy with a new mommy. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807542105
• ISBN13: 9780807542101
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.6" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

children's adoption book

I agree with some of the other reviews in regards to the whole "real mommy" wording. This is something that has recently come up with our 6 yr old daughter. She wanted to know why her real mommy couldn't keep her. It's very important that these children understand that we are their "real" mom and dad's. That the mother that gave birth to them loved them and loves them very much, but that we are their mom's and dad's now and will always be. To me I just didn't love the wording. The illustration was great. Yet the story just didn't do it for me, or for our daughter.

Great

Here's another of our son's adoption favorites. Like Katie, he wondered where babies come from, and why he came to his parents differently than most. He identifies strongly with Katie, whose trip to the zoo let him, early on, explore the adoption theme. He pulled this book from those I intended to review, explaiming, "OOOOOOO! I love this book!"The zoo will find a new mother for a baby koala that suddenly lost its own. Katie's parents compare this to the way that an adoption agency found parents for her when her birth parents could not care for her. Katie's parents buy her a stuffed koala, which she adopts to act out her concerns. This is simply a great book for any child who was adopted, as well as for his siblings. Alyssa A. Lappen

Good for adopted children

My 3-yr old adopted daughter really likes this book. It is a good story and well written. The part where Katie becomes motherly toward the stuffed koala is very age appropriate for the 3-4 year olds.