A is for Always: An Adoption Alphabet - Hardcover

by Linda Cutting (Author), Leonie Little Lex (Illustrator)

A is for Always. With your hand in mine,
Adoption's a gift that will last for all time.

With gentle rhymes and lovely illustrations, A Is for Always celebrates the joy and love of adoption from A to Z. With B for birth parents, Q for questions, and U for understanding, it frames challenging aspects of adoption in a way children can understand. Best of all, each page shows a different adoptive family of cuddly animals welcoming and cherishing a new child.

Author Biography

A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award winner, Linda Katherine Cutting's Memory Slips also won the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for excellence in writing about music. Linda, a professional pianist and former college teacher, left her career to write full-time in 2017. She has published essays in The New York Times, The Guardian (UK), The New Republic, The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, Cognoscenti, Wired, and The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband and two adopted children who inspired the picture book A Is for Always.