The Missing Piece
The Missing Piece is a Mom's Choice Gold Award recipient.
A heartwarming story of child adoption and the different ways loving families are created.
A loving family works together on a puzzle when an important piece is nowhere to be found. As the mother, father, and three children search high and low through cupboards, on bookshelves, outside, each and every day, it becomes apparent that they are waiting for the missing piece, hoping and loving that it will come along. And when it does, the overjoyed family is finally complete.
The Missing Piece is perfect for adoptive families, birth families, and anyone wanting to introduce young children to adoption with sensitivity and care. This story offers a simple, metaphor that helps toddlers and preschoolers understand belonging, connection, and hope.
Reviews for The Missing Piece
"This is a book I’d recommend not only for adoptive families, but for any family. Because at its heart, it’s about belonging. About being wanted. About love that makes room and waits and welcomes. It’s tender, thoughtful, and full of heart—and it’s the kind of story that stays with you long after you close the cover."
-Cindy Lynn Sawyer, children’s author and founder of Designed2Glow
"A softly woven narrative with a lasting emotional resonance...
A valuable addition to library collections addressing family diversity with warmth and clarity."
"Plenty of picture books have addressed adoption - usually from the perspective of a wondering child. This is the first to create a dual perspective of the adoptive family and the birth mother, weaving a tale of anticipation, love, and togetherness into a bigger picture of acceptance, giving, and joy.
Libraries and read-aloud parents will find The Missing Piece’s approach and positivity supersedes many other adoptive tales, placing it above and beyond most, in a category of its own."
- D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer