Abstract
The three most recent children's books about surrogacy, A Turtle's Tale, Sophia's Broken Crayons, and Grown in Another Garden, depict couples without children as sad and surrogacy as a kind, helpful act that makes “the sadness go away”. A Turtle's Tale, for example, is characterized as “a heartwarming tale of love and family”. Love and family, empathy and altruism are indeed central themes in all three books. In this essay I discuss the three books, written by women who are themselves surrogates, in the context of critics' evaluation of surrogacy, on the one hand, and my ethnographic research of surrogates' debates about practices and meanings on the largest public moderated online surrogacy support forum, www.surromomsonline.com (SMO), on the other.
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