Wish You Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains chronicles Half the Sky founder Jenny Bowen's personal and professional journey to transform Chinese orphanages—and the lives of the neglected girls who live in them—from a state of quiet...
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In this sweet rhyming picture book, a mother prepares her daughter for bed by telling her about the different animals that live nearby and their nighttime activities. The mother’s narrative comes full circle from night to dawn, and the little girl is lulled to...
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In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get...
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After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal...
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Pieces of Me, Who do I Want to Be? is a collection of stories, poems, art, music, quotes, activities, provocative questions, and more – all for the young adopted person who wants to figure out his or her story but doesn’t know where to begin. It is a book of voices,...
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Every year, hundreds of adoptive families embark on homeland trips to China and other countries. Homeland trips offer great opportunities for helping adopted children develop a coherent narrative that makes sense of their complicated beginnings. Although the trip can...
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As her turn to be "Star of the Week" in her kindergarten class approaches, Cassidy-Li puts together a poster with pictures of her family, friends, and pets, and wonders about her birthparents in China.
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One little girl can change your life forever. In The Little Girl, a Chinese bachelor adopts an abandoned baby. He raises her, enjoying the joys and trials of fatherhood. As the girl comes of age, the father realizes that he can't take care of his daughter forever, so...
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A testament to the more than 100,000 Korean adoptees who have come to the United States since the 1950s, this collection of oral histories features the stories of nine Korean Americans who were adopted as children and the struggles they’ve shared as foreigners in...
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For adopted children, learning about their beginnings and how they understand what that means to them is a process. It doesn't happen at one point in time, but rather throughout the experiences of life. This heartwarming children's book, Forever Fingerprints, uses a...
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Aching to expand from a couple to a family, Jeff Gammage and his wife, Christine, embarked upon a journey that would carry them across a shifting landscape of emotion—excitement, exhilaration, fear, apprehension—and through miles of red tape and bureaucratic...
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In I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, Rose Lewis and Jane Dyer told the heartfelt story of one woman's adoption a baby girl from China. These sentiments are brought to life again in this touching portrait of birthday celebrations and unforgettable moments between a mother...
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From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding job in...
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Russell was asked by a friend, Alex, to accompany her to China to help her pick up the baby she and her husband were adopting. While parents usually make the trip together, Alex's husband had to stay home to care for another child. Russell didn't know Alex all that...
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Through compelling essays, fiction, poetry, and art, the contributors to this landmark publication carefully explore this most intimate aspect of globalization. Finally, in the unmediated voices of the adults who have matured within it, we find a rarely-considered...
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In this poignant and heartfelt book, a young boy anticipates the arrival of his new baby sister. She is coming from China to be adopted into his American family. The story describes, month by month, the boy's participation in the long adoption process. Finally the...
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When Shu-li is born, her parents wrap her in a blanket and take her to town. The government says that a family is allowed to have only one child. So they lay Shu-li on the ground beneath a bridge. On her blanket they pin a note that reads THIS IS OUR SHU-LI. PLEASE...
Finally, a comprehensive parenting book for adoptive families! Over 100 contributors from across the globe have come together to weave a stunning tapestry of advice specifically for adoptive parents. Parenting adopted children is parenting plus-- there's an extra...
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The Families With Children From China (FCC) special edition of "Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America" is a revised version of Adam Pertman's groundbreaking book, with new essays and updated information on key issues. The updated...
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The Chinese believe an unseen red thread joins those in this life who are destined to connect. For photographer Richard Bowen, that thread led him to China's state-run welfare institutions, where there are thousands of children, primarily girls, growing up without...
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Milly Kaufman is an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted...
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A lovely and thoughtful gift to anyone who has adopted or is considering this choice for their family. Adoption is Another Word for Love contains entries from a diverse array of people, who express with great sentimentality how deeply love can be felt and how love is...
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Shaoey & Dot: Bug Meets Bundle is an endearing tale told from the point of view of one little ladybug, Dot, who happens upon a mysterious bundle one sunny day. Dot stays with the little bundle as she is carried to the place where babies come to be found and...
Emma Li Ming, who was born in China, is happily ensconced in her new home in North America. But as she and her brother make cookies to resemble their family, she is dismayed that hers is the only one decorated with raisins and black licorice for eyes and hair, in...
This story of an American family's adoption of a Chinese toddler is storytelling at its finest. The narration in two voices begins as the mother shares a scrapbook she compiled with Claire. Big brother Conor reveals his thoughts through journal entries printed in...
Parents who adopt children internationally have to grab for a firm handhold on a swinging pendulum of child raising advice. Should they act as if they are colorblind or bolster their child's racial identity? Should they help their child assimilate to the...
You're not my REAL Mother! - the words that all adoptive moms dread but most must face. This poignant book tells the story of how one mother deals with this statement of anger and frustration, while reinforcing the love that she and her adopted daughter share....
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Fourteen-year-old Jess is only just coming to terms with her father's death in a car accident. Until now, she believed that her mother put aside the family's plan to adopt a daughter from China. But a year has passed, Xiao Ting is ready to be picked up from her...
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This is a story about a little girl who needed a mommy and a woman who needed them both. It is a journey about the forming of a family. It is as lyrical as a love letter from a mother to her daughter, as honest as the struggles they encounter, and as comforting as a...
Some families look alike, some don't. Some families are formed through birth, and some families are formed by adoption. But as the little girl in this heartwarming book makes clear, being a family isn't about who you look like or where you were born - it's about the...
Adoptive parents hold in their hearts precious bits of information about the earliest days, months, or years of their children's lives, before they joined their families. Parents understand this information is invaluable to their children, yet they wonder how...
In this first view of China adoption from a child's perspective, eight-year-old Ying Ying Fry returns to her orphanage to remember what it is like and to write a story so that other adopted children will understand where they came from. Kids Like Me in China combines...
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All Emily Prager had at first was a blurred photograph of a baby, but it would be her baby - if she journeyed to China to pick her up. Emily brought back to America the baby chosen for her. She was named Lulu, and Emily was determined to honor Lulu's heritage by...
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This is a complete guide to understanding the dilemmas faced by adopted children in the school setting. It offers insights into the experiences of young people who are faced with assignments, activities and occasions which make participation difficult or painful...
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Mary Zisk draws on her own experience as a single parent of an adopted daughter in this first-person narrative. Her vibrant paintings reflect the joy and happiness shared by this mother and daughter.
This book, by author Rose Lewis, is a New York Time's Best-Selling Children's Book. Based on the author's own experience, this heartfelt story follows a woman on her journey to adopt a baby girl from China. From paperworks to the plane flight, the narrative...
An invaluable resource for any family who has adopted or is planning to adopt from China, A Passage to the Heart gathers together more than one hundred articles published over the past few years in the regional newsletters of the leading Chinese-adoption support...
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Decorated in floral patterns and colored in lush, velvety hues, the thickly stroked, realistic artwork expands on the text while heightening the emotions it conveys. Elizabeth's misgivings are met head-on by her adoptive mother's reassurance, love, and thoughtful...
In a land far away, little babies sleep ever so soundly. But not Little Miss Ladybug. She is fluttering with great excitement, as she follows her Magical Red Thread through an open window to a world apart, where a mommy and daddy are busy preparing a room for one of...
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In China, the moon shines on four baby girls, fast asleep in an orphanage. Far away in North America, the sun rises over four homes as the people who live there get ready to start a long, exciting journey. This lovely story of people who travel to China to be united...
Many adult adoptees have gone through life wanting to ask questions about their birthparents, but felt the thoughts they have might make their parents uncomfortable. Then, these questions have remained unasked and unanswered. We See the Moon opens the adoption dialog...
Have you been procrastinating about making a lifebook for your adopted child? Well, this book will help you start moving in the right direction. It contains instructions and advice on how to create a lifebook that catalogs the circumstances of an adopted child's...
The Waiting Child, by Cindy Champnella is an inspiring true story about her adoptive daughter who convinces her family to return to China to rescue a little boy she could not forget. The Champnella’s went to China in 1998 to adopt a 4-year-old girl, in spite of all...
A family's particular origin is only the start of what being "a family" means. In this heartwarming tale of family love and beginnings, Rain meets Bo and her new "forever" Mom and they become a brand new family. There are many kinds of families, but all families are...
Now you and your child can enjoy this beautiful book and its wonderful, best-selling story in a sturdy board book format that's better suited to the less-than-three-year-old set! To learn more about how I Love You Like Crazy Cakes was born, read Lewis' article for...
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Every adoptee has a unique life history and story waiting to be told in his or her own voice. At Home in This World captures the thoughts and emotions of a nine-year-old girl with honesty and eloquence as she reflects on her adoption from China. Author and adoption...
Written by adoptive mom, Carrie Kitze, this beautifully illustrated and uplifting book will help to create the intimate parent/caregiver and child bond that is so important. For the child who looks different from their parents for what ever reason - foster care,...
"In this highly illuminating and deeply moving book, Kay Johnson provides an intimate portrait of the complex processes by which, over the past decade, thousands of little Chinese girls have made their way from orphanages in China into adoptive homes overseas. It is...