Such a sweet book! A wonderful book talking about adoption and the adventures of the sweet little boy.

Such a sweet story for elementary children to be read aloud to or to read on their own. Simple yet silly at times. Sweet and sets up for good discussions about making good choices. The ending also allows for some deep discussions about families and adoption.

So, I definitely judged this book by its cover and thought it would be lame. But the kids and I loved it! We laughed our loud and I was crying at the end. This is certainly a "vintage" book, set in a culture different from the current one but I don't think that is a bad thing. We can't wait to read the sequel and I will most definitely be reading this with little brother!

Cute stories. I loved that the main character is a boy. My son loved it, but I had a problem reading it to him. It is definitely a product of it's time in the way it approaches adoption. We don't have orphanages anymore, and it's very rare that someone can just go and pick out the child, much less baby that they want. (like the metaphor of picking out kittens that the book uses) It was very insensitive, and I felt the need to have a long talk of damage control with my adopted son and hug him a long time.

Simple and great for a budding chapter book emerging reader. Rascal (8) and I read this for Sonlight A. He struggled with a desire to read it at first but want to read more about Penny and Peter and Betsy when he finished it.

Cute story -- My daughter really loved it...especially the super happy ending. She called it before I did! :)

Great funny book that Henry and Nicholas both loved...so much that we are currently reading the next book in the series. Has adoption themes which are great.

I love the old fashioned innocence of this story. A great book to talk about adoption and how it has changed since the book was written.

Cute, but some of the concepts really haven't held up over time. Particularly how they handled adoption was abominable, kids aren't a freakin' sweater that you have to pick out the perfect looking one. But despite this, my daughter loved it.

My 6 and 8 year olds liked it. I had a really hard time with Penny being a boy--I kept reading "she" by mistake. A good book for a child who is adopted.

Kids loved it. Even my 9 yr old boy. We didn't expect to love it so much.

An enjoyable tale of times gone by. I personally found Penny's description as his Mummy's and Daddy's really truly an important message as their adopted child. This also led to his own hunt and care and concern for others, be they cats also charming. A good lesson when he finds Really and Truly that there are hidden things that we may not initially think are for us, but God provides. The reverse lesson happens to the parents who are looking for a baby but find Peter to adopt!!