Ideas to ink: How I self-published a children’s book on open adoption.

Posted by Sally Shuey | Last updated March 9, 2022

By Gabrielle LaFrank, Open Adoptee. I was in first grade when I understood that my reality was foreign to nearly everyone around me. Diversity was everywhere, but it didn’t include me. In school we read books about children of other religions, ethnicities, and genders, but adoption was almost never represented. When it was, it was usually in the context of …