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Galindo, Renata

My New Mom & Me

(2) PS In a heartfelt first-person text, a young dog tells of initial mixed feelings about its adoptive single-parent mom (a cat); spare digital illustrations make the pair's species-specific differences plain to see. In the end, the narrator is comforted: "we are learning how to be a family." A hopeful, satisfying treatment of older-child adoption that speaks to the universal need for love and acceptance.

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