I choose to review this book because it is about adoption and having four adopted children I thought I would see what some of them thought about it.
The Rainbow Egg by
Linda K. Hendricks, M.D. Illustrated by Linda Hendricks
The
Rainbow Egg is a children's book about adoption. It is a story about
a chicken that lives in the woods and has an egg but no nest. She
finds a chicken coop with an empty nest and asks to put her egg in
it. The chicken hatches and the mother chicken asks to leave her baby
chicken with the Rainbows that had the empty nest. In the end she
leaves her baby chicken and I think that was a little sad.
This
book was supposed to be about adoption and that is why I choose to
read it since I have four adopted children. I read it to my youngest
age 1 and my oldest age 14. My youngest seemed to keep interest in
the book because the pictures were nice and he loves chickens and
eggs. My oldest said the story was ok but it did not get the point of
adoption very well.
I
had a hard time seeing a christian message in the book. The
illustrations were well made. It was enjoyable to look at. I would
not recommend it because the average child does not need to read a
book about their mother leaving them. There was no reason in why she
should leave her baby and not enough emphasis on how the new parents
would be better for the baby chicken. I believe the adoption message
would have been better if the new parents were represented as a
better benefit to the chicken. Adoption is a hard subject to explain
to kids and I think the author did their best.
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