I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis
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Book Reviews of I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Book Review: This is a beautiful book
Summary: 5 Stars
Like most of the other reviewers, I am in the process of adopting from China, and I absolutely love this book! I too cry sometimes thinking about my future daughter: is she born yet? Is she happy? Is she well cared for and loved? I also wonder about her birth mum. Women in China are often forced to have abortions for pregnancies that have not been approved, so for any woman in China to give birth and then have to give up her baby must be the saddest thing in the world for them. My grandmother had given up two of her sons years ago, and she never fully recovered from it. I love that the book presented this concern. It's not just some sweetness and light kids' book. It tells the true (often sad) story of families created via adoption.
On another note, I've noticed many people complaining about how no father is included in this book. There are only about a thousand other adoption books out there with a nuclear family, so why begrudge one with a single mum? Other parents have made this book work with their children from Russia, why can't you make it work by adding other pronouns or explaining that the woman in the story was not married but wanted to give a baby a loving home and that fathers are very important and she probably wished that she had had a husband but hadn't met the right man at the time? If you absolutely need a book based on a nuclear family's exprience, there are many out there from which to choose. But if you want a deeply moving story that will appeal to your child more and more as the years go by, and one s/he will keep well into adulthood, this is the book.
Book Review: Courtesy of Kids @ Teens Read Too
Summary: 5 Stars
WIth I LOVE YOU LIKE CRAZY CAKES, author Rose Lewis brings to lifer her true story of adopting a baby from China. What begins as a letter to Chinese officials ends with bringing home a baby girl, to the delight of her new mother and extended family.
Jane Dyer's illustrations are soft and dreamy, and perfectly compliment the story of Rose and her daughter, Alexandra Mae-Ming Lewis. From that first time of holding her new daughter, to the first night alone back in America, the feelings of love and devotion are evident on every page.
Although this is a book sure to appeal to parents who have adopted children from other countries, specifically China, it's a great story for any child, adopted or not. In fact, my daughter was especially enamored by the book, since it was her first introduction as to what adoption truly means.
Great as a bedtime or any time story, it's no wonder that I LOVE
YOU LIKE CRAZY CAKES is well on its way to becoming a children's classic.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
Book Review: A rose for Rose
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't care what was inside this book. I had already fallen in love with its cover! And then more joy upon looking at the adorable illustrations and the author's simple, loving words describing her journey to China and picking up her baby girl. This is a book with few pages but volumes of enchantment and love. I am an adoptive mother, and our little girl was 4 days young when we brought her into our house. I felt the same joy Rose Lewis expressed. I especially liked Lewis's feelings for the Chinese mother who could not keep her baby. I too cried tears for our unknown birthmother and like Lewis hoped that somehow the grieving mother knew her child was safe. Even though Lewis described her love for a Chines baby, her book speaks equally well to anyone who adopts a baby anywhere in the world. I wish her book had been available when our little girl grew up. Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?Book Review: My adopted daughter loves this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this book as a post-adoption gift from a friend. With every page I read, tears came to my eyes because the author captured the key moments of the adoption parent/child bond simply and beautifully. My experience is mirrored in these pages and the illustrations are almost duplicates of my actual adoption journey photos. It helps me keep alive the wonderful memories of the adoption of my daughter from China.
It has been more than a year since I returned home with my daughter who is now 2 year old. We often read this book at bedtime and, even though she is only 2, she strongly identifies with the book. So much so, that she insists that I use her name when I'm reading about the baby in the book. She also points at the pictures of the mother in the book and relates it to me ... her mommy.
This will be a treasured book in our home forever.
Book Review: Great Introduction to My Daughters Adoption Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm single and my parent's bought me this book the day after I told them I was going to adopt a child from China. My daughter has been with me for nearly 2 years now and I still can't read it without tearing up. My daughter
2 1/2 loves this book. She picks it up and says, "You and me!" I have always read it to her by changing the story to reflect ours better. Rather than playing in the hotel room, I always talk about going swimming and shopping. And in speaking about our arrival home I mention the names of the family members waiting for us. She was so interested in this book that last week I got out her photo album and talked her through her own adoption story showing her pictures of the "big room" she lived in. She loved it. This book has given me the chance to talk about adoption easily with my daugter at a very young age. And SHE LOVES the photos!