A girl named Hazel goes with her mom to visit her brother Ravi, whom she has never met. After playing together and going home, they communicate online and by sending each other presents. They then visit again and play together before going back to their separate homes once more. When Hazel asks her mother why they don’t live together, she learns they “came from the same seeds. We just have different mommies.” The story might have worked better if we’d found that out near the beginning, though, rather than on the last page. I’m not aware of any other picture book about donor siblings, and this is a gap that clearly needs filling. I give credit to Dukoff, too, for only showing one mom in the story, so that it works for many families who may have used donor sperm: single moms, two-mom families, and mom-dad families with fertility challenges.
