November is National Adoption Month, and we're celebrating with the Why Did You Choose Me? Saturday Hop and giveaway, hosted by JustRead Tours and Ambassador International! Every Saturday in November, hop along to the different host blogs and enter the great giveaway! About the BookTitle: Why Did You Choose Me? Author: Katie Cruice Smith Illustrator: Sarah Strickling Jones Publisher: Ambassador International Release Date: November 12, 2017 Genre: Children's Picture Book, Adoption Most adoptive and foster children struggle at some point in their life with knowing who they are and where they belong. They want to ask questions, and parents need to be prepared with an answer that helps their child feel loved and secure. After searching for adoption storybooks to read to her own adopted children, Katie Cruice Smith decided that there was a need for more books that parents could read at bedtime to connect with their adopted and fostered children. In Why Did You Choose Me?, Katie Cruice Smith answers that question in a way that young children can understand. Drawing from her own experience as an adoptive mom to three children, Katie uses the questions her own children have asked to help them see there never really was a choice she knew right away that they were hers. With beautiful illustrations by artist Sarah Strickling Jones, Why Did You Choose Me? lovingly demonstrates the uniqueness that each child brings to a family. About the AuthorKatie Cruice Smith is a freelance writer, journalist, and editor, and she resides in the Upstate of South Carolina with her husband and three adopted children. Katie is an adoption and foster care advocate, and she and husband are licensed foster parents and the founders of their church’s orphan ministry. She is currently working on a devotional book to accompany Why Did You Choose Me? About the IllustratorSarah Strickling Jones enjoys working with oils, acrylics, ceramics, and printmaking. She creates her artwork and teaches students of all ages from her country home. She lives in Greer, South Carolina, with her husband Darren and four children: Trevor, Peyton, Blake, and Renea. Why Did You Choose Me? is Sarah Strickling Jones’ first illustrated children’s book in watercolor. CONNECT WITH SARAH: ReviewWhy Did You Choose Me by Katie Cruice Smith and illustrated by Sarah Strickling Jones, is an inspiring and special book about the unconditional love a parent can have for an adopted child. Each page is filled with charming colorful pictures with coinciding poetry text of a beautiful conversation between Mother and an adopted daughter. This is a wonderful book that will touch the heart of readers and especially the heart of adoptive parents or children. Genre: children’s, family, adoption Publisher: Ambassador International Publication date: November 12, 2017 A review copy of this book was provided by JustRead Publicity. A review was not required and all views and opinions expressed are my own. Giveaway(1) winner will receive
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