The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Rosenberg, Liz

We Wanted You

32 pp. March, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-7613-1597-7 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-7613-2661-8 $$23.90

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Peter Catalanotto. In this moving picture book about adoption, a mother and father tell their son how much they wanted him and how eagerly they awaited his arrival. The artwork, which features Caucasian parents and a Hispanic boy, begins with the son at high school graduation and shows him gradually getting younger until he is adopted as an infant, a thematic technique that emphasizes the enduring nature of the parents' love.

Reviewer: Anne St. John