About How I Wonder Where You Are: Recognizing Adoptee Grief (L.I.F.E.* Adventures series Book 2):
It’s National Adoption Awareness Month!
2023 1st Place Purple Dragonfly Book Award- Family Matters
This children’s book about adoption is a heartwarming book with themes of empathy and understanding.
Carla, who is adopted, wonders about her birth mother and family roots when she is asked to make a FAMILY TREE at school. Where does she come from? Who does she look like?
Parents and educators will utilize this book as an effective tool to open up the discussion about the adoption triad, and the love of adopted parents and siblings. Carla discovers that wondering will always be a part of her. The love within her adoptive family is something to celebrate and share, however there is pain in thinking about the family that is unknown to her.
Find out how Carla manages to keep both of these families close to her heart.
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Author Bio:
Anna Maria DiDio, MSW is an adoptive parent, writer, speaker, and educator. Her first book and memoir, “Love at the Border,” is a rare behind the scenes look at the international adoption of an older child. She is the mother of two young wonderful women and loves hanging out with them together or separately depending on any number of mitigating factors. An avid reader of adoption books, Anna Maria knew that her journey was extraordinary. Her mission in writing children’s books is to encourage conversation between adoptive parents and children around trauma, separation, grief and loss so that all blended families thrive! Anna Maria lives with her husband Richard in Philadelphia.