Mom and Me

by Christine Donnier and Diane Barbara

Book for writing down the memories of your mother and you.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810948206
• ISBN13: 9780810948204
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 47 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.9" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

for moms and dads

This is great for a new mom or mom to be although you are meant to fill it out with your child at about 3 years of age. I gave the Dad and Me to my son and then the Mom and Me to his wife before their baby was 7 months and they just love the books and can't wait to be able to fill them out with their daughter.

Could have been better for your Intl. adopted child

I love the idea of sitting down with and without your child and creating a magical and unforgettable personalized book about your relationship with your child. The chapters are: Like a House Life Before You Where Born My Birth My Firsts My Life As a Toddler My Mom's Perfume My Mom by Heart My Mom and Me My Mom and Her Life My Mom and Her Work From Mom to Mom My Mom and Her Family My Mom As a Baby My Mom As A Little Girl My Mom as A Teenager My Mom As a Young Woman Meeting My Dad Our Family Those Eyes I think this an awesome book and would give it 5 stars if they had just tweeked a few of the pages by asking someone who's adopted what they thought about maybe 3 or 4 pages. They do get kuddos for actually thinking about and including your adoptive child both domestic and Internationally adopted but, I think they did so late in the book writing so to speak and really didn't give it as much thought as they could have. Some domestic adoptions also have very limited information on the birth mother. For example: Page 6 - Life Before You Where Born It shows a drawing of a very pregnant mom and a space to put your child's 1st ultrasound and what week the ultrasound was taken. But I still loved the book and plan to work around it and add a 5x7 referral photo of our daughter. Page 7 Tell me Mom... Mom, please tell me about my life inside of you! This page has a photo of a stork's neck & beak holding 4 green bunddles to write: 1st green bundle asks: How did you know you were pregnant? How did you feel? What did you do when you learned the news? They could have used How did you know I was going to be your child? If you go left to right the 2nd & 3rd green bundle are OK for your adoptive child, but would be left blank unless you put some more referral photos in these 2 bundles. The only problem there is that usually you only get 1 referral photo 2 or 3 if you are lucky. 4th green bundle - this is where it looks like when doing the final draft of this book said, oh we should include adopted children too! It's question is If I was adopted, how did you and Dad find me? Where did I come from? Did you wait a long time? OK, but now blank for any child who wasn't adopted - so I guess you could add a baby picture there. Page 9 My Birth I love that it says " To have or adopt a child is like plunging into mysterious water- the water of an upcoming life that is filled with love. And even if a mom has had other babies, for her, each new birth is another jouney. Across from that is a little cloud for you to write on Who cut my umbilical cord? Adopted children have so little if any information on their births Then you put in the date of your child's birth - that's ok Next - When and at what time was I born? With International adoption at least in China that is information you seldom get. Week of the day - you can go back and find out on a calendar. How did it go? (I guess they where talking about your birth) - no usable and another blank space & sen

Great for single Mothers

This is an awesome book. The only thing I didn't like is there was no place for Dad or his family and they don't make a book called Dad and Me that is like this one.