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| I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis, Jane Dyer (Illustrator) Editorial Review Amazon.com Mother-love is profound, however a baby comes into a woman's life. For Rose Lewis, the journey to motherhood begins with a letter to Chinese officials, asking if she can adopt from the "big room with lots of other babies." The infants in that room in China are each missing a mother, but Lewis is missing something, too--a baby. She travels to China to meet her new little girl and falls head over heels in love. Taking her baby home to America, Lewis introduces her to all her family and friends, and they begin their life together. The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption by Jean Davies Okimoto, Elaine M. Aoki, Meilo So (Illustrator) Editorial Review From Publishers Weekly This tender, ebullient picture book tracks a quartet of parents in North America and a quartet of baby girls in China as everyone prepares for the "special day" they meet. Okimoto (the daughter of an adoptee) and Aoki (the mother of an adoptee) effectively contrast the flurry of excited activity on one side of the world ("In Toronto, Howard Suzuki sang in the shower while Jessica dried her hair") with the peacefully slumbering babies on the other ("Li Shen snuggled on her side. Qian Ye slept curled in a ball"). Readers get a peek at the mechanics of international adoption (including the long plane trip and bus ride to the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou) and the emotions of the prospective parents (the government waiting room was "as silent as still water." But their hearts "thumped like drums and fluttered like the wings of a bird"). Set against clean white backdrops, So's (Tasty Baby Belly Buttons) expressive watercolors bloom like spring flowers. The parents emerge as distinct individuals, each exuding a unique energy-an impressive feat given the economy of line with which the artist articulates each impressionistic illustration. With its matter-of-fact mix of parents that include two married couples, a lesbian couple and a single mother, the book's understated message-that families come in all shapes and sizes, and are bound together by love-comes through loudly and clearly. Ages 5-8. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Nina Simonds, Leslie Swartz, Meilo So (Illustrator) Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin, Brian Boyd, Terry Fry When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted from China by Sara Dorow, Stephen Wunrow Over the Moon : An Adoption Tale by Karen Katz Let's Talk About It: Adoption by Fred Rogers All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka (multi-racial) An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey by Stephan Molnar-Fenton, illustrator Vivienne Flesher At the Beach by Huy Youn Lee A Blessing From Above by Patti Henderson Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat by Jennifer Armstrong China's Bravest Girl: The Legend of Hua Mu Lan by Charlie Chin Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes by Robert Wyndham Coloring Book of Ancient China Count Your Way Through China by Jim Haskins The Cricket Warrior: A Chinese Tale by Marcia Vaughn Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett The Dancing Dragon by Marcia Vaughn The Day We Met You by Phoebe Koehler Dim Sum for Everyone by GRACE LIN Doctor Me Di Cin by Roberto Puimini The Dragon Prince : A Chinese Beauty & the Beast Tale by Laurence Yep Dreamland: A Lullaby by Mary Chapin Carpenter El Chino by Allen Say The Empress and the Silkworm by Lily Toy Hong The Empty Pot by Demi Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon How the Rooster Got His Crown retold by Amy Lowry Poole The Hunter retold by Mary Casanova I Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze In the Park by Huy Youn Lee In the Snow by Huy Youn Lee Journey Through China by Philip Steele K is for Kiss Goodnight: A Bedtime Alphabet by Jill Sardegna The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, Ruth E. Harper, Nancy M. Leak Kite Flying by GRACE LIN Kites: Magic Wishes That Fly Up to the Sky by Dem A Koala for Katie: An Adoption Story by Jonathan London Ladybug, Ladybug by Ruth Brown Legend of Mu Lan: A Heroine of Ancient China by Wei Jiang, Cheng an Jiang Liang and the Magic Paintbrush by Demi Little Miss Spider by David Kirk Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young Maples in the Mist: Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty by Minfong Ho Mei Ling's Hiccups by David Mills & Derek Brazell Mei Mei Loves Morning by Margaret Holloway Tsubakiyama Millions of Snowflakes by Mary McKenna Siddals A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kaza Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story by Carol Antoinette Peacock The Monkey and the Panda by Antonio Barber Monkey King by Ed Young The Mouse Bride by Monica Chang Mouse Match: A Chinese Folktale by Ed Young The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story by Anne Braff Brodzinsky, Diana L. Stanley One Grain Of Rice : A Mathematical Folktale by Demi Our Baby From China: An Adoption Story by Nancy D'Antonia Red Is A Dragon: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Thong The Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jang and DW Hwang Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy The Seventh Sister: A Chinese Legend retold by Cindy Chang Silk Peony, Parade Dragon by Elizabeth Steckman The Story of Chopsticks by Ying Yang Compestine The Story of Noodles by Ying Chang Compestine The Story of Paper by Ying Chang Compestine The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack Teddy and the Chinese Dragon by Jan Mogenson Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth Three Pandas by Jan Wahl Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mose A Time of Golden Dragons by Song Nan Zhang and Hao Yu Zhang Toddler Two by Anastasia Suen Too Many Suns by Julie Lawson The Weaving of a Dream: A Chinese Folktale by Marilee Heyer We See the Moon by Carrie Kitze We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbie Jane Kates White Tiger, Blue Serpent retold by Grace Tseng Whoever You Are by Mem Fox Yeh-Shen, A Cinderella Story from China retold by Ai-Ling Louie 1, 2, 3, Go! by Huy Youn Lee *Chinese New Year* Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance by Ian Wallace Chinese New Year's Dragon by Rachel Sing Chinese New Year For Kids by Cindy Roberts Dragon Dance a Chinese New Year: A Chinese New Year Lift-The-Flap Book by Joan Holub, Benrei Huang Gung Hay Fat Choy by June Behrens Happy, Happy Chinese New Year by Demi Hitz Lion Dancer by K. Waters and M. Slovenslow Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts by Carol Stepanchuk Moon Festival by Ching Yeung Russell Red Eggs and Dragon Boats by C. Stepanchuk Sam and the Lucky Monkey by Karen Chinn This Next New Year by Janet S. Wong |
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