Baby (MacLachlan novel)

Rock, Paper, Scissors ( original English title: Baby ) is a 1993 first published children 's books of the US-American Patricia MacLachlan.

Action

Larkin's family, who lives on an island that takes place after the departure of the last holiday guests at the end of the summer a basket on her doorstep, in which the baby is Sophie. The mother has left it because she can not take care of them and asks, as long as to take care of their daughter until she picks them up again.

Against the will of the father decides the mother to keep it. Now, with the new family member, and the long -delayed confrontation with the death of Larkin's brother will take place, who died six months earlier, shortly after the birth. Sophie takes virtually his place and even the father and Larkin, the longest reluctant to see you soon in the baby a family member. But after a year enters what all anxiously expected: the true mother arrives and leaves with Sophie along the island.

Comments

The book was on the list of the German Youth Literature Award 1995.

Filming

2000 was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, a film adaptation titled Baby - Happiness on time. The main roles were played by Farrah Fawcett and Robert Carradine.

• Literary work
• Children 's and Youth Literature