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International Adoption Stories From The Childs Perspective Tong Ting Finds a Family tells the story of Tong Ting’s adoption from a caring orphanage in China to a loving family in Maine. The book is in both English and Chinese and tells the stories in two different ways: one story is a an honest and heartfelt narrative written from the parents’ perspective and a colorfully illustrated story written from Ting’s perspective, just right for reading aloud to children. This book is perfect for anyone whose life has been touched by international adoption. SEE SAMPLE PAGES NOW BUY NOW! BLOG Dear Readers, I have the rare blessing of having had two biological births and one adoptive birth. If you define a birth as the magical, mystical moment of bringing a child into your world, then I have had three births. If you have had a biological birth, you remember the months of waiting and planning; the impatience, nervousness, and anticipation of the last month; the release of the birth; and then the gentle love that begins at the moment of first sight and continues until you die. An adoptive birth bears these same experiences. The moment of meeting a child half way around the world, a child who is held in the arms by a woman who loves this child as her own, but who wants to see her child have a family to love and care for her, to give her an education, is nothing less than a miracle. The very air vibrates with the wonder of it. Your heart becomes as soft as silk. Your arms reach for her; there is nothing else they want to do. She is your baby, your daughter. You love her, pure and simple. Tong Ting Finds a Family is such a story. But it is not a simple tale, for the decision to adopt asks things of a person that a biological birth does not. It asks you to take a child from her culture; how do you come to peace with this It asks that you take a child from her immediate world of people who care for her, of companions she sleeps and plays with; how do you come to...