Please contact me if you know of additional books that should be added to this list.

For Kids

Ruby’s Wish   by Shirin Yim Bridges

The Magic Paint Brush by Julia Donaldson

Yi Min and the Elephants: a Tale of Ancient China  by Caroline Heaton

The Willow Pattern Story by Alan Drummond

Henry’s First-Moon Birthday  by Lenore Look  

The Day I Met you  by  Phoebe Koehler

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born  Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

How I was Adopted by Joanna Cole &  Maxie Chambliss

I love you Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis and Jane Dyer

When You Were  Born in China: a memory book for children adopted from China by  Sara Dorow and Stephen Wunrow

Shaoey and Dot: Bug Meets Bundle by Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman

My Mei Mei by Ed Young

Beyond the Great Mountains By Ed Young

Cat and Rat: the Legend of the Chinese Zodiac by Ed Young

Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry

Mama’s Wish/Daughter’s Wish by Debbie Blackington

Big Sister, Little Sister  by LeUyen Pham

A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza

Waiting for May by Janet Morgan Stoeke

The Red Blanket by Eliza Thomas

At Home in This world, A China Adoption Story by Jean Macleod

I Don’t Have Your Eyes by Carrie Kitze

We See the Moon by Carrie Kitz

Families are Forever by Craig Shemin

All kinds of feelings by Emma Brownjohn

Twice Upon a Time, born and adopted  by Eleanora Johnson

Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings
The Twelve Gifts of Birth by Charlene Costanzo

Mei-Mei Loves the Morning by Margaret Tsubakiyama, Cornelius Van Wright, and Ying-Hwa Hu

Mommy Near Mommy Far by Carol Peacock

You’re Not my REAL Mother! By Molly  Friedrich

Baby Steps by Henry Holt

Red Scarf Girl: A Memory of the Culture Revolution by Ji Li Jing

The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

In the Year of the Board and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear and all the books in this series by  Lensey Namioka

Kung Fu Princess Series by Pamela Walker

Parent Books

Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections by jean McLeod and Sheena Macrae (Editors)

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids - by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky,

Beneath the Mask - Understanding Adopted Teens - by Debbie Riley, M.S. with John Meeks, M.D,

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self  - by David Brodzinsky, Marshall Schechter and Robin Henig,

The Family of Adoption - by Joyce Maguire Pavao

Help for the Hopeless Child - by Ronald Federici

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss - by Claudia Jewett-Jarratt

Real Parents, Real Children - by Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb

Why Didn't She Keep Me? - By Barbara Burlingham-Brown

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew - by Sherrie Eldridge

Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition - by Louis Melina

Culture of Transnational Adoption by Toby Alice Volkman

Cross-Culture Adoption by Amy Coughlin & Caryn  Abramowitz

Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America by Adam Pertman

Good Luck Life by Rosemary Gong

Books by Amy Tan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Twenty Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim

The Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka

Outsiders Within: Wrting on Transracial Adoption by Jane Jeong TRenka, Julia Oparah Sun Yung Shin (Editors)