Shaoey and Dot by Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman

This sweet children's book was written about the Chapman's adoption of Shaohannah Hope, as seen through the eyes of a ladybug named Dot. 

Dot finds a baby wrapped up and left on a path by a Chinese village.  She rides along as the baby is found and taken to a place with dozens of other babies with almond shaped eyes, a place where "babies come to be found."

Dot comforts the baby through each step, explaining what is happening.  She tells her there are many kinds of tears, but that the saddest ones are "unlike any other.  It comes from a deep, empty place in your heart that can only be filled by a mother."  Then she tells her about adoption.

I can never read the end of this book without crying, which makes my children laugh at me.  The "ten tearful eyes looking at them" and hearing "the prettiest song that she had ever heard anyone sing" and her realization that the pretty song was a name, Shaoey's name, evokes memories of my own adoptions.  I wish every waiting child could find a family!

After the adoption of Shaohannah Hope, Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman founded Shaohannah's Hope, later shortened to Show Hope, an organization that aids families seeking to adopt.