2023 1st Place Purple Dragonfly Book Award– Family Matters
The Purple Dragonfly Book Award Contest is a worldwide book competition celebrating stories that are original, innovative, and creative in content and design.
This children’s book about adoption is a heartwarming book with themes of empathy and understanding.
Carla, who is adopted, wonders about her birth mother and family roots when she is asked to make a FAMILY TREE at school. Where does she come from? Who does she look like?
Parents and educators will utilize this book as an effective tool to open up the discussion about the adoption triad, and the love of adopted parents and siblings. Carla discovers that wondering will always be a part of her. The love within her adoptive family is something to celebrate and share, however there is pain in thinking about the family that is unknown to her.
Find out how Carla manages to keep both of these families close to her heart.
