So I was looking through a new craft book called Handmade Hellos* the other morning and came across an idea for a really super cute (and appropriate) baby announcement card.  It was designed to look like a book and on the inside is a library due date card in a book pocket.  The baby’s stats were listed on the due date card as “Title: [baby’s name], Authors [parents’ names]” and that’s what got me.  Can I call myself the “author” of my future child?  Or would we be more like the editors?  Or the publishers?  It feels like it would be plagiarism to call ourselves the authors of our adoptive baby.  I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I think I’ll be skipping this announcement design in any case.  There are lots of other super cute options out there.  Just one more tiny example of the differences between adoptive and biological families.  Or maybe not.  Maybe biological families would feel weird calling themselves the “author” of their child too?  How about calling yourselves the bindery?  The illustrators?

*If you click on the link above and then look at image 6 of 6, you can actually see the page I’m talking about.