Congratulations as you walk on the beautiful road towards adoption! As a fellow adoptive mom I understand the reality of falling head over heels for a little person that you hardly even know. I know about long waits and set backs. I know about living in anticipation for the moment when your family will all be in one place!

I can understand how it feels to prepare for the transition that will take place in my life, but I can’t even begin to try to put myself in the shoes of a child who enters a new family in a distant land. There are different foods, different caretakers, different sleeping arrangements, different clothes, and on top that there are the unfamiliar sounds of a foreign language. Most confident adults would crumble under these conditions! For a child who is too little to be in control of his or her surroundings it must be a very uncomfortable experience to say the least.

This book was written with the great hope of making that transition a bit easier for the new child in your family. Hopefully these words and phrases in your child’s native language will give you a way to explain things to help ease their fears, keep them safe, and most importantly, to let them know how very much you love them.

Amy Kendall

*Part of the proceeds from these Books & CD sets will go to help children

who are waiting for families. Click here to see photos of what has been made possible with your help!