Mishka, An Adoption Tale
 
Written by Adrienne Ehlert Bashista and illustrated by Miranda R. Meueller

For readers age 4 and up, this tale is a realistic one that shows parents going to get their older toddler child from an orphanage.  Mishka has a great sense of being written by an author who has been through the adoption process and gives it the ending MOST people experience-a family is formed + one Mishka (teddy bear).

The clever narrative given from the perspective of the mishka is what makes this story work. The pictures are so well done that it mimics some photographs in our life book from our adoption.  My son and I keep it on the regular reading shelf because it is one that can be read over and over and at different ages of development.  It is general enough that we could put in our own story as we went.  Normalizing the adoption process for our children and opening up a gateway for communication is the key-and I believe this book is a must have for your adoption library.

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