Revised in 1996 to reflect changes in adoption over a decade and re-illustrated in full color, this book now engages yet another generation of five to ten year olds who wonder about adoption. This tender story is not just for adoptees, however. It is for their friends and classmates, for their non-adopted siblings and cousins, for their teachers and their parents.
Although she loves her baby very much, a young mother bird chooses adoption because she is unable to give him the home which he needs.