PICTURE BOOKS
Rosenberg, Liz

We Wanted You

(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.

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