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OUR SUBWAY BABY

Peter Mercurio Leo Espinosa

The True Story of How One Baby Found His Home

This gentle and incredibly poignant picture book tells the true story of how one baby found his home.
"Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway."

So begins the true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional text tells how his partner, Danny, found a baby tucked away in the corner of a subway station on his way home from work one day. Pete and Danny ended up adopting the baby together. Although neither of them had prepared for the prospect of parenthood, they are reminded, "Where there is love, anything is possible."

Peter Mercurio is the founder and artistic director of Other Side Productions, a nonprofit theater company, and has written for the New York Times, Marie Claire Australia, and Reader's Digest. Peter lives in New York City with his husband, Danny, and their son, Kevin, and has played on the same softball team for over twenty years.

Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia, whose work has been featured in the New Yorker, Wired, Esquire, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and more. Leo's illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, Pictoplasma, 3x3, and the Society of Illustrators. Leo lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Published 2020-09-15 by Dial Books for Young Readers

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Good Morning Britain ran an interview with Pete and Danny. Read more...

OUR SUBWAY BABY is one of the Rainbow Book List top picks! Read more...

A sweet tribute to an enduring love that grew from happenstance, this suggested general purchase for all libraries praises the love of a diverse family.

Feature on Danny and Peter Read more...

OUR SUBWAY BABY is a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards Read more...

BCC (93.3 million UVPM) ran an interview with Pete and Danny, which was picked up by The New York Post (45.1 million) and Out (1.8 million UVPM), among others. Read more...

Twenty years ago, Danny Stewart discovered an abandoned newborn baby on a subway platform at 14th Street in Manhattan. That chance moment ended up changing his life, and that of his partner Peter, as the pair would go on to become the boy's adoptive parents. Now, twenty years later, Peter has turned their incredible story into one of the sweetest picture books I've come across - Our Subway Baby - with a powerful message at its heart: Where there is love, anything is possible. Read more...

NBC Nightly News aired their interview with Peter Mercurio and his husband Danny Stewart. The segment shared the family's story as well as Pete's picture book OUR SUBWAY BABY illustrated by Leo Espinosa. Read more...

We speak with Peter Mercurio and Danny Stewart, who adopted their son after finding him abandoned in a New York City subway. They join us to tell their story and talk about Peter's heartwarming book "Our Subway Baby," which details their family's journey. Read more...

The story excels at highlighting the determination of loving fathers while still including realistic moments of hesitation, doubt, and fear that occur for new and soon-to-be parents... Family snapshots and a closing author's note emphasize that the most important thing in any family is love.

Channel Q's "Let's Go There with Shira and Ryan" ran an interview with Pete and Danny. Read more...

interview with Pete and Danny - telling the story of their miracle son and how their family came to be by chance in a New York City subway Read more...