Baby

Twelve-year-old Larkin returns home one day to discover a baby sitting in a basket in the driveway of her family’s house. The only clue to the baby’s appearance is a note from the child’s mother. “This is Sophie,” the note reads. “She is almost a year old and she is good…I will come

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back for her one day. I lover her.”
Larkin, her mother and father, and her grandmother all welcome Sophie into their home, caring for her and reaching her games and e3w words. As Sophie grows, she leans to walk and speak. Larkin and her family come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that Sophie’s mother will return one day to take her from them.

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After the tourists leave the Island at the end of summer Larkin's family is left a baby, Sophie, to care for until her mother can look after her herself. Sophie's arrival creates the chance for Larkin to express her anger at her parents after the death of her newborn baby brother. Her parents never

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talk about him and didn't name him. Larkin never saw him and has not had her grief recognised and acknowledged. Once her anger is verbalised the family begins to heal.

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This was a beautiful book - simple and yet moving. The characters were drawn with quick, spare lines, but nevertheless they were true and vivid. And a very nice exploration of dealing with loss. This is an example of literature written for kids that reaches another level.

Tells the story of a family who has recently lost a newborn son but has discovered a year old baby, Sophie, was left on their front porch with a note. Though Sophie’s mother eventually returns to get her, Sophie helps the family get over their loss and find one another to learn to love again. The

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novel illustrates a closer look of what foster families potentially go through knowing that children will come and go but that what the family experienced with the children will never be forgotten. It is an important novel for this reason and illustrates the realities of love and loss that are often experience in everyday life.

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I *thought* I was done with the Sarah, Plain and Tall series (turns our there are five books in the series, not three), so I moved on to other books by MacLachlan, who is pretty prolific. This one gives a very intense feeling for the island the family lives on - not like you feel like you know

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every part of it, but more like you know just what it's like to live there. A sad book, yes, but one that rings true and is beautiful.

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This author can pack a lot of emotion in a few pages. Living on an island, the members welcome summer visitors and then celebrate when they leave. Twelve year old Larkin and her friend discover a baby in a basket left behind from one of the tourists.

A note indicating the name of the baby is Sophie

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and that the mother has watched Larkin's family and knows they will take care of her baby until she returns is all the information they have.

Sadly, the previous year, Larkin's mother and father had a tiny baby boy who did not thrive. When this tiny baby is accepted into the family, wounds not yet healed surface.

Knowing they did not want to love the baby for fear they would lose her, still they cannot help but grow fonder as the child loves the family.

Knowing that the mother will return one day, still, the family cares a great deal.

When the mother returns, the family realizes it is time to mourn the death of their son and celebrate the unconditional love they gave to sophie.

Writing with a depth of feeling, developing strong and wonderful characters, this is a story to hold in your heart.

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Larkin's family welcomes Sophie into their home, caring for her and teaching her games and new words. They come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that eventually Sophie's mother will return one day to take her from them.

This is a children's book, yet, it isn't. As she has done in a similar fashion in her other books, the author places us in a simple setting, and tells us of love, sadness, and loss...but from the perspective of a child. In this instance it is Lark who relates the year that a baby became part of her

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family, temporarily.

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Larkin's family welcomes Sophie into their home, caring for her and teaching her games and new words. They come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that eventually Sophie's mother will return one day to take her from them. From Amazon