Christine Mitchell
Author and Illustrator
Contact: christine@christine-mitchell.com
Endorsements
Welcome Home, Forever Child has been enthusiastically endorsed by leading adoption experts and authors:
- A great way to help young children to understand what adoption and forever means in their lives. Parents and children will love to see the many firsts they will share while grieving the ones they missed. Fun illustrations and the rhyming cadence are sure to delight the preschool set."
Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W., co-author with Gregory C. Keck, PH.D.
Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child - “I truly enjoyed reading Welcome Home, Forever Child. Children will love the pictures and delightful rhymes. This book helps adopted kids to celebrate life and activities in their adoptive home while providing a framework to understand their infancy in another place. This book will be useful in helping children bond to adoptive parents.”
Foster Cline, M.D., Co-author with Jim Fay
Parenting with Love and Logicand Parenting Teens with Love and Logic - “This book provides reassurance to children and parents that a lifetime of important memories can be created regardless of the age at which a child joins his or her forever family. The rhymes and delightful illustrations will appeal to children from toddler age through middle childhood.”
Mary Hopkins-Best – Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft
- “Christine Mitchell truly captures the heart's desire of an adoptive parent welcoming an older child into their home. Written with warmth and understanding, Christine captures hope for the adoptive family and most of all, hope for the new child. Welcome Home, Forever Child will be a great book to keep on the night stand of every toddler or pre-school child coming home.”
Jayne Schooler –Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child
and Journeys After Adoption
About Welcome Home, Forever Child:
After expressing their excitement at welcoming their new child home, the parents acknowledge that they missed significant events and milestones in the child’s early years. The family then cheerfully looks forward to the experiences and ‘firsts’ they will share and the memories they will make together. Throughout the book, the parents promise to love, nurture, and protect their child. Finally, the family reiterates their joy at welcoming their Forever Child into his or her Forever Family.
The text is carefully worded to be appropriate for both boys and girls, and domestic or international adoption. The characters were portrayed as cats of different colors and patterns to subtly convey the differences common in transracial adoptive families.
Social workers, therapists, support groups, and CASA volunteers will want to recommend this treasure to their clients and add it to their own libraries. Welcome Home, Forever Child will also make a very special keepsake gift for a child upon joining his or her new family, or finalizing the adoption, or the anniversary of either event. Sample Pages
