In one of my earlier posts, I gave a list of books for adults and children. One that I cannot one of my earlier posts, believe I left off of the children’s list is "Little Miss Spider," by David Kirk. If you are unfamiliar with the Little Miss Spider books, they are a series of books featuring a bug family made up of all different types of bugs. It is also now an animated television show on Nick Jr.

In some of the books and on the television show, Miss Spider and her husband are the parents in a family, and their children are all different types of bugs. While the show is not an “adoption” show, many of the messages are just wonderful ones for a transracial family. The family deals with how each bug is unique, each one is good at different things, etc. There is one episode in particular where Miss Spider, as a mom, has to “let go” of her dragonfly baby, who wants to learn how to fly with other dragonflies. Miss Spider can’t teach her son how to fly because she herself is not a dragonfly, but she can support him and love him and encourage him to be his very best. I loved it!

All of the books are really fun, but my absolute favorite is “Little Miss Spider”. This book starts off with Miss Spider as a baby, and she hatches from her egg and cannot find her mother. She searches high and low, and is befriended by “Kind Beetle Betty”. Betty helps Miss Spider search for her mother, and when it becomes obvious that she is not going to be found, Beetle Betty takes Little Miss Spider home. She bathes her and feeds and loves her. Miss Spider realizes that she has found her mom…it is the beetle that is loving her and caring for her.

I have read this book probably over one thousand times to all of my kids (they love it and so do I!) and yet I still can’t read the last page without choking up.

The last verse of the book (which reads as a poem), states, “When searching for mother there’s one certain test. You must look for the creature who loves you the best.”

You can find this book (and many great others!) at adoptionshop.com

Here is the link for "Little Miss Spider" at adoptionshop.com.