From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1–Written to celebrate the authors' adoption of their daughters from China, this story is told from a ladybug's point of view. The insect, Dot, hears a baby cry and stays with the small girl in the orphanage and throughout the adoption process. Because ladybugs represent hope for families waiting to adopt children from China, the symbolism is meaningful. However, Dot describes and guesses at the feelings of the human characters, making the events seem less than immediate, and the emotions surprisingly muted. The text is written in a singsong verse, and many of the rhymes do not scan well. Done in watercolor and ink, the average-quality cartoons show Dot with a human head and an orange polka-dotted body. For books on Asian adoption with a more childlike perspective, try Rose A. Lewis's I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Little, Brown, 2000) or Ying Ying Fry's Kids Like Me in China (Yeong & Yeong, 2001).–Laurie Edwards, Infinity Charter School, Harrisburg, PA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description
Shaoey & Dot: Bug Meets Bundle is an endearing tale told from the point of view of one little ladybug, Dot, who happens upon a mysterious bundle one sunny day. Dot stays with the little bundle as she is carried to the place where babies come to be found and promises to stay with the little one throughout her journeys toward getting a family. Written by Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth, this heartwarming tale is inspired by the true story of their adoption of three little girls from China and is a story of hope and faith for all families who have been blessed by a lost little bundle of love.

ANNOTATION

An abandoned Chinese baby who has been befriended by a ladybug finds her way to an orphanage where she is eventually adopted by an American family.

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