Her bio-mom had always regretted placing her for adoption, and her brothers had hoped their entire lives that they might someday find her again. I am happy to say that she did, and they were overjoyed to find her again. So about fifteen years ago, she started learning more about Colombia, taught herself Spanish, and ultimately decided to track down her birth family. She was also understandably curious about her past, her biological family, the country and culture she had been born into. Besides the fact that our family loved and adored her and never saw her as anything but ours, there was no getting past that she was of South American ancestry and looked nothing like the rest of her family. However, all her life, she knew that she was different. She grew up speaking English with a Jersey accent, participating in Irish and Italian family customs and celebrations, and overall grew to become a lovely, generous, amazing woman and one of the best people I know. She was adopted from Colombia as a baby and raised in a large Irish/Italian family in New Jersey.
I have a cousin who I grew up with she’s more like a sister to me than anything. Perhaps you are right, and you are of course entitled to interpret the book howsoever you will. However, with such a beautiful story and adorably realistic illustrations that may make you reconsider your fear of bats, this book would be fantastic for older readers. JJ rarely gets bored with books, and we were only about halfway through before she was ready to go do something else. One complaint: this book was definitely too long for this Baby Bookworm. And while Stellaluna’s adoptive bird mother seems a little cruel, her love and bond with her siblings, even when they realize how different they are, is a great analogy for how family will always love you, no matter how different you are. This book has a very poignant message that so many kids can identify to: sometimes you only feel out of place because you haven’t found where you belong yet.
One day, she is discovered by the other bats and reunited with her mother, and she finally feels as though she belongs – but can she share her new life with her adopted bird siblings? She does her best to pretend to be like the birds, even though she feels different. Summer Reading Day 77: Hey everyone! Today we read Stellaluna by Janell Cannon, the story of a little fruit bat who gets separated from her mother and is raised by birds.
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