Reading List

I am going to compile a list of adoption related books. No, I haven't read them all, but I saw the list on another site and would like to keep track of the books. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.

Books for Parents
• The Lost Daughters of China, Karin Evans
• When You Were Born in China, a memory book for children adopted from China, Sara Dorow (photographs)
• Emma's Story, Deborah Hodge
• Talking with Young Children About Adoption, Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher
• Making Sense of Adoption, Lois R. Melina
• Our Baby from China : an adoption story., Nancy D'Antonio. (photographs)
• Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to her Hometown in China, Emily Prager
• Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships, H. David Kirk
• The Waiting Child : how the faith and love of one orphan saved the life of another, Champnella, Cindy.
• Inside Transracial Adoption, Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall
• Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption and Orphanage Care in China, Kay Ann Johnson
• Dim Sum, Bagels, And Grits: A Sourcebook For Multicultural Families, Myra Alperson Farrar
• Being Adopted - the Lifelong Search for Self, David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Marshall D. Schechter, M.D., and Robin Marantz
• Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural, Claudine C. O’Hearn
• "Are Those Kids Yours?" , Cheri Register
• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge
• Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft, Mary Hopkins-Best
• Attaching in Adoption:Practica Tools for Today's Parents, Deborah D. Gray


Chinese Culture and History/Novels
• Language Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts; Festivals of China, Carol Stepanchuck and Charles Wong (Illustrated )
• China Wakes, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
• The Search for Modern China, Johnathan D. Spence
• River Town: Two years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler*
• Wild Swans; Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang
• The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, Eric Liu • Confucius Lives Next Door, T. R. Reid
• Katherine, Anchee Min (a novel) • Red Azalea, Anchee Min (a novel)
• The Genius of China, Robert Temple

Books for Children (books for children are either China-related, adoption-related, or multicultural in text or illustration.)

Infant & Toddler
• Say Goodnight, Helen Oxenbury
• We See the Moon, Carrie Kitze
• Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story, Carol Antoinette Peacock
• Corduroy's Party, and Corduroy's Day, Lydia Freeman
• Peek-A-Boo, I See You, Joan Phillips Toddler & preschool
• If I Could Be a Circus Clown, J. Ellen Dolce
• The Day We Met You, Phoebe Koehler
• Lon Po Po, translated and illustrated by Ed Young
• The Postman, Rosalinda Kightley
• Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies, Ann Turner
• Emma's Dragon Hunt, written and illustrated by Catherine Stock

Preschool & older
• The Mouse Bride: A Chinese Folktale, retold by Monica Chang and illustrated by Leslie Liu
• I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, Rose A. Lewis
• Dragon Kites and Dragonflies, adapted and illustrated by Demi, from Tze-Si Huang
• Red Eggs & Dragon Boats; Celebrating Chinese Festivals, Carol Stepanchuck. (Illustrated)
• Over the Moon : An Adoption Tale, Karen Katz
• A Sky Full of Dragons, Mildred Watley Wright (Illustrated)
• Roses Sing on New Snow, Paul Yee (Illustrated)
• Long is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children, Peggy Goldstein (Illustrated)
• Hu is a Tiger: An Introduction to Chinese Writing, Peggy Goldstein (Illustrated)
• Weighing the Elephant, retold by Jin Honggang
• The Empty Pot, Demi (Illustrated)
• The Dragon Prince, retold by Laurence Yep (Illustrated)
• Nina, Nina, Ballerina, Jane O'Connor (Illustrated)
• The Stonecutter, retold by Demi (Illustrated)
• Lord Bao Interrogates the Stone, retold by Yan Chun
• Tye May's Magic Brush, retold by Molly Bang Young Elem. & older
• When You Were Born in China, Sara Dorow
• Kids Like Me in China, Ying Ying Fry
• The Moon Lady, Amy Tan
• The Best Single Mom in the World: How I Was Adopted, Mary Zisk
• The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption, Jean Davies Okimoto
• Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes, Nina Simonds, Leslie Swartz, and Meilo So (Illustrated)
• Red Thread, Ed Young
• Count Your Way Through China, Jim Haskins (Illustrated)
• Little Miss Ladybug & Her Magical Red Thread, Karen Acers