This companion Guide for Loved As You Are is designed for parents, teachers, counselors, family, and friends of children who have been adopted from hard places. This guide is designed to help give common language, empathy, compassion, and understanding for adopted or adoptive children, while equipping the reader with questions, background information of the illustrations, a scavenger hunt on every page, as well as ways to challenge the readers own precepts, beliefs, and understandings.Family comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Adoption through foster care is one wonderful path a family can walk to come together. Even the storms and steep mountains of life your child has faced are part of the larger, colorful portrait God is painting of their life. Though God may not have brought the challenges their way, He can always make use of them for your child's good. Join Gif, the giraffe, on his perilous and providential journey to find his forever home - to discover what it means to be loved as you are.