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Zak's Safari: A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families by Ciaee, Christy Tyner
lsparrow's review against another edition
4.0
The kids loved to have a birth story that told their story. cute and simple
mckinlay's review against another edition
5.0
this was super cute and a fun way to learn about how different types of families become families. would highly recommend to queer parents who went the donor route to make their family! great way to explain it to your kids.
silodear's review against another edition
Well... this book is probably very helpful to a certain type of family. It didn't really do it for me.
jessiquie's review against another edition
[b:Zak's Safari: A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|24246383|Zak's Safari A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|Christy Tyner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420155894s/24246383.jpg|43830907] is a cute and educational picture book designed for young children to inform them on the donor process. For many parents, this is a scary topic of much confusion and heartache – after all, how and when you decide to let your child know is a big decision.
When the narrative starts the reader is introduced to Zak, a Safri tour guide who has to alter his plans to show a “rare baby albino alligator’ due to weather conditions and instead takes the reader through an ‘adventure tour’ of his family. The tour starts from when his parents first meet and goes through concepts of what conception is, through to the various pairings parents can make (same sex, two men, two women etc), to what genes are and the role they play in making us who we are and to a rough sketch of Zak’s life. Nothing is off limits, and everything is up for discussion and that in itself is one of the best things about this book.
[b:Zak's Safari: A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|24246383|Zak's Safari A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|Christy Tyner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420155894s/24246383.jpg|43830907] isn’t a book that will appeal to everyone. For many it will be too confrontational, and others just too overwhelming. While I’m not a same sex parent (or a parent at all), I really admire this book for what it is doing; helping to give parents and children a safe outlet to discuss what is ultimately a very confusing and confronting concept for everyone involved.
One thing I loved about this book, was the fact that it opened with a detailed two page letter from Alice Ruby ( MPH, Excetive Director of the Sperm Bank of California and a mother through donor conception) to the reader. While this letter is aimed at the parents, it’s a helpful guide to how to handle the initial discussion of donor conception and same sex parents. The book further goes above and beyond by including a blank page for the reader’s family to record their own story journey, so that they too can understand exactly where they come from.
[b:Zak's Safari: A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|24246383|Zak's Safari A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|Christy Tyner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420155894s/24246383.jpg|43830907] is an exceptional little book. With big ideas it seeks to break down the misunderstandings and prejudice against donor conceptions and help families with same sex parents, or donor conception babies, to break through the social barriers of families and their origins.
This review was originally posted at The Never Ending Bookshelf on the 19th April 2017 and can be found here: http://wp.me/p3yY1u-1c2
When the narrative starts the reader is introduced to Zak, a Safri tour guide who has to alter his plans to show a “rare baby albino alligator’ due to weather conditions and instead takes the reader through an ‘adventure tour’ of his family. The tour starts from when his parents first meet and goes through concepts of what conception is, through to the various pairings parents can make (same sex, two men, two women etc), to what genes are and the role they play in making us who we are and to a rough sketch of Zak’s life. Nothing is off limits, and everything is up for discussion and that in itself is one of the best things about this book.
[b:Zak's Safari: A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|24246383|Zak's Safari A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|Christy Tyner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420155894s/24246383.jpg|43830907] isn’t a book that will appeal to everyone. For many it will be too confrontational, and others just too overwhelming. While I’m not a same sex parent (or a parent at all), I really admire this book for what it is doing; helping to give parents and children a safe outlet to discuss what is ultimately a very confusing and confronting concept for everyone involved.
One thing I loved about this book, was the fact that it opened with a detailed two page letter from Alice Ruby ( MPH, Excetive Director of the Sperm Bank of California and a mother through donor conception) to the reader. While this letter is aimed at the parents, it’s a helpful guide to how to handle the initial discussion of donor conception and same sex parents. The book further goes above and beyond by including a blank page for the reader’s family to record their own story journey, so that they too can understand exactly where they come from.
[b:Zak's Safari: A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|24246383|Zak's Safari A Story about Donor-Conceived Kids of Two-Mom Families|Christy Tyner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420155894s/24246383.jpg|43830907] is an exceptional little book. With big ideas it seeks to break down the misunderstandings and prejudice against donor conceptions and help families with same sex parents, or donor conception babies, to break through the social barriers of families and their origins.
This review was originally posted at The Never Ending Bookshelf on the 19th April 2017 and can be found here: http://wp.me/p3yY1u-1c2
cweichel's review
4.0
Zak's Safari is chock full of great information on how to explain to your children that they are donor conceived. Zak is a loveable kid who lets readers know how he came to be, but also shows us that he lives a pretty ordinary love filled life. I really enjoyed it, but wish the quality of the print was better. It doesn't do Ciaee's illustrations justice.
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