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    <body><![CDATA[As an adoptive parent, I am always on the search books to help reinforce or validate my children's experience with adoption.<br/><br/>My daughter loved the illustrations, and could really connect with the story as it was similar to her own in many ways.<br/>Although we are a 2 parent family, I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42126399">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ages 3-8<br/><br/>From Booklist<br/>Ages 4-8. The title sounds sweet, but this autobiographical story of a woman journalist's trip to China to adopt a baby girl seems less fictional sentiment than reportage. In a gentle manner just right for a picture-book audience, Lewis first explains China's c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75696131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I Love You Like Crazy Cakes is Rose Lewis's love letter to her adopted Chinese daughter, documenting Lewis's desire for a baby, the adoption process and the journey home. The story is mostly sweet and tender, and those moods are emphasized by Jane Dyers wonderful illustrations. However I found  seve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44116577">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a drive-by read for me.  I don’t have children so don’t find myself reading children’s books on a regular basis.  However, I walked past a display of children’s books and was drawn in by the title: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= I Love You Like Crazy Cakes" title=" I Love You Like Crazy Cakes"> I Love You Like Crazy Cakes</a>.<br/><br/>The book itself is a hardboard book, perfect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40945457">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Me for Kids @ TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>With I LOVE YOU LIKE CRAZY CAKES, author Rose Lewis brings to lifer her true story of adopting a baby from China. What begins as a letter to Chinese officials ends with bringing home a baby girl, to the delight of her new mother and extended fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21682683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This touching story of a young woman’s journey to a far-away land is compelling and worrisome, yet joyous in the end. Although we do not know the young woman’s name, or the baby’s name, we have a sense that it could be any mother and child. All that truly matters is the love of parent for a ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19354840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[I Love You Like Crazy Cakes]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I read to my daughter when she was younger to introduce to her a little bit of her life story. She enjoyed it, and liked the pictures of a baby who looked like her.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Mother-love is profound, however a baby comes into a woman's life. For  Rose Lewis, the journey to motherhood begins with a letter to Chinese officials,  asking if she can adopt from the &quot;big room with lots of other babies.&quot; The  infants in that room in China are each missing a mother, but Lewis is missing  something, too--a baby. She travels to China to meet her new little girl and  falls head over heels in love. Taking her baby home to America, Lewis introduces  her to all her family and friends, and they begin their life together. <p>  A touching love story, <em>I Love You Like Crazy Cakes</em> will warm the cockles  of any new parent's heart, especially those who have recently adopted a child.  It's an ideal story for lap-time reading, and will inspire parents and kids to  talk about their own first &quot;meetings,&quot; whether at birth or in an adoption  agency. Jane Dyer, illustrator of the bestselling <em>Time for Bed</em> by Mem Fox, <em>Oh My Baby, Little One</em> by Kathi  Appelt, and many other marvelous picture books, uses a pastel palette of  watercolors to capture the tender moments between the American mom and her  rosy-cheeked Chinese baby. (Ages 3 to 6) <em>--Emilie Coulter</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I have NEVER been able to read this one to my children without crying.. it is a beautiful reminder to me of the gift that two women that I may never met have given to me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book back in graduate school and loved it! Adoption has a special place in my heart.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think these books by Lewis are sweet and the pictures beautiful but they don't seem very applicable to many others. The text is very specfic to the author's and her daughter's story and experience of adoption.  It will be most applicable to other families who have adopted from a Chinese orphanage....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34144173">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Mother-love is profound, however a baby comes into a woman's life. For  Rose Lewis, the journey to motherhood begins with a letter to Chinese officials,  asking if she can adopt from the &quot;big room with lots of other babies.&quot; The  infants in that room in China are each missing a mother, but Lewis is missing  something, too--a baby. She travels to China to meet her new little girl and  falls head over heels in love. Taking her baby home to America, Lewis introduces  her to all her family and friends, and they begin their life together. <p>  A touching love story, <em>I Love You Like Crazy Cakes</em> will warm the cockles  of any new parent's heart, especially those who have recently adopted a child.  It's an ideal story for lap-time reading, and will inspire parents and kids to  talk about their own first &quot;meetings,&quot; whether at birth or in an adoption  agency. Jane Dyer, illustrator of the bestselling <em>Time for Bed</em> by Mem Fox, <em>Oh My Baby, Little One</em> by Kathi  Appelt, and many other marvelous picture books, uses a pastel palette of  watercolors to capture the tender moments between the American mom and her  rosy-cheeked Chinese baby. (Ages 3 to 6) <em>--Emilie Coulter</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special baby girl.  Based on the author's own experiences.&quot;<br/>During a unit about family this would be a great book to read when talking about adoption.  The language is simple and clear.  The illustrations are very pretty!  It makes t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36512914">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautifully illustrated book that deals with a single parent adopting from China.  Only one of my children liked the book as a younger child.  As she grew, she realized that the book isn't very true to the actual experience she had within the orphanage which wouldn't have made for such a h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19640757">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[about international adoption]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is just the cutest book out there.<br/><br/>it's kinda childish and probale way to young for my for being 14,, but its really cute and my mom use to read it to me and even at the school's i would go read it.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>'you could read it but thats up to you':]]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book tells the story of a woman who wants to be a mommy and a darling little baby girl in China waiting for a mommy.  I read it to my little girl often, because it's &quot;our&quot; story.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[n simple, heartfelt language, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes tells the story of how one mother found her baby daughter by traveling to China. Infused with maternal love, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes features soft watercolors by bestselling artist Jane Dyer. Now in a board book format, this emotional adoption book is perfect for little hands.]]>
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