We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo
Illustrator
Linda Shute
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Publication Year
1989
ISBN
97116269841
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Nine-year-old Benjamin Koo Andrews, adopted from Korea as an infant, describes what it's like to grow up adopted from another country.
Grade Level
PK-1
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; Adoption; Multiracial; Multicultural; adopted children; adoptive family; international adoption; interracial/transracial adoption; multiracial family; multicultural family
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Brazilian / Korean / White
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Awards
100 Magnificent Children's Books, 2014 Poetry
Keywords
questions; Korean songs; Korean New Year; dancing; samba; customs; traditions
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Walvoord, Linda, "We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo" (1989). Diverse Families. 222.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/222