Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles

The husband-and-wife team behind this book drew on their own adoptive daughter's experience in creating this accessible, appealing story celebrating the love of families everywhere.

When it's Cassidy-Li's turn to be Star of the Week at school, the spunky kindergartener gets to create a poster about herself. She has pictures of all the important people in her life-with one big exception. Cassidy-Li, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn't have a photo of her birth parents. But with a little help from her family, she finds a special way to include them.

Cassidy-Li's thoughts and questions about her birth family will resonate with adopted children and serve as a springboard for discussion in homes and classrooms. This picture book gently explores what adoption means for growing children-the questions adopted children have don't stop as they grow older.

Any young reader who feels that their family structure is unusual will find a reflection of themselves in Cassidy-Li's struggle to define her own family.