Montana's Memory Day, A Nature-Themed Foster/adoption Story, by Sue Lawrence (Mascot Books, $16.95, 2021, 38 pages, ages 4-8, grades K-2*)
A New Mom, life on the farm in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a snowy winter that begins with dawn chores - a book to help make the best adoption story even better with made-up words (just a few) that are perfectly understandable!
This is Montana's Memory Day
A Memory Day could be an anniversary of one's Adoption Day when New Mom says her now forever son Montana carved his way into her heart as they carve shapes out of dried branches. Adoptees, non-adoptees and families will feel part of the story, that this tale is for them and with them.
Sounds on Nearly Every Page
Splosh, Slosh, Surge of a winter creek.
Crunch and Stomp in new snow.
Skip, Dip, Flutter - the American dipper (bird)
Whack, Clunk, Thud - gathering firewood
Plus, information in the back about whittling (wood carving). (When I was a kid, we practiced by carving on bars of Ivory soap.) And a glossary. And facts and websites about fosters. And recommended reading about foster kids and whittling (and the difference between whittling and carving).
Watercolors You'll Wish You Could Keep
Lovely watercolor illustrations of brown trees and rocks, and the whites of snow, and the pale blues of a winter's sky.
*primarily for the under 5 age group
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