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Kids Like Me in China
by Ying Ying Fry, with Amy Klatzkin;
photographs by Brian Boyd and Terry Fry
ISBN: 0-9638472-6-0
Hardcover
Color photographs
Price: US $18.00
Pages: 44
Pub Date: Oct. 2001
As seen on NBC's Today Show!
On February 24, 2003, Katie Couric interviewed Ying Ying
and her parents on the Today Show.
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"Ms. Fry writes with such delight and keen observation, you feel like
you are visiting the orphanage with her. Every adopted child will love to read
this book again and again. It is their story too."
--Rose Lewis, author of
I Love You Like Crazy CakesIn this first view of China adoption from a
child's perspective, eight-year-old Ying Ying Fry returns to her orphanage
to remember what it is like and to write a story so that other adopted
children will understand where they came from. Kids Like Me in China combines real-life photos with the
forthright observations and complex feelings of an adopted child as she meets
caregivers and befriends children in the city where her life began. This book
will inspire all adopted children to take charge of their own life stories.
Ying Ying Fry is in third grade at the
Chinese American International School in San Francisco, where she
studies all subjects in both English and Mandarin. She is a Junior Girl
Scout and likes to play soccer, draw, read and write stories. She wrote
this book with help from her mom, Amy Klatzkin, a contributing editor to
Adoptive Families Magazine and the editor of
A
Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from
China.
Are
you a kid who's gone back to visit China? Share your stories with other
kids like you. Click here!
"How marvelous that in telling their own stories children can embrace
their connections to many layers of people and places. Kids Like Me in China
paves the way for parents and children to explore the layers of their own
histories and identities. It is a playful, thoughtful and refreshingly
accessible story." --Sara Dorow, author of
When
You Were Born in China
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