| View Larger Image | Hope & Will Have a Baby: The Gift of Egg Donation | Paperbackby Irene Celcer (Author), Horacio Gatto (Illustrator)
| List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $14.96 | | You Save: | $4.99 (25%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Graphite Press | | Page Count: | 32 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 01, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 492,208nd |
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Product Description
Follow an inquisitive little boy who learns of his parents' quest to have children, and the success they ultimately achieve in creating a family. Told in a language a child can understand, read the tale of how mom and dad met, fell in love, and ultimately built a family. This story on the gift of egg donation is part of a book collection that brings to light the many reproductive options of family building. Come and celebrate the unique gift couples can receive on their way to becoming a family. --Full Color with Illustrations. --Ages 3-7. About the Hope & Will Collection Ordinarily, most people don't think twice about how to build a family. Having biological children is presumed to be the way it is going to happen -- until it doesn't. It is at this stage that parents begin the journey to explore additional options, and this journey is not always easy. For those parents who choose third party reproductive assistance, these books provide a delightfully new and refreshing way to tell children about their unique beginnings. Written by mental health and reproductive specialist Irene Celcer, and boldly portrayed by internationally recognized illustrator Horacio Gatto, each stand-alone volume recounts the same story from a different perspective, highlighting four distinct pathways to conception: egg donation, embryo donation, sperm donation, and surrogacy. Each book in this collection provides a great vehicle for parents to tell children how they came into this world. Available separately, the other books in the Hope & Will collection are The Gift of Embryo Donation, The Gift of Sperm Donation, and The Gift of Surrogacy. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 2 reviews)
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Disappointed by Sally (California)  1 Stars
July 31, 2009
I had high hopes for this book, & though it's overly detailed for the purpose of introducing children younger than 5 or 6 to the facts of donor conception, I liked it until I got to the very end. There, the author identifies the much-awaited baby, twice, as "Matthew, a gift of God." There is a dearth of resources out there for parents trying to explain alternative methods of conception to their children. Too bad an otherwise engaging book, which could have served a useful purpose, had to inject religion into the story at the end. I wish this crucial detail hadn't been omitted in Amazon's description & the other reviews. For those of us parents who don't believe in gods, it's a deal-breaker.
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Egg Donor Book by Dawn S. Berg  4 Stars
June 07, 2009
The only reason I rated this a 4 and not a 5 is because I think this is still a little too much "info" for a 3 year old. I will wait to read this to him in a few years.
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