Put Rainbowkids.com in your favorites folder, because if you're a parent of a child adopted internationally (or a hopeful parent) you will find a great resource in this on-line magazine devoted specifically for families created trhough international adoption.

This website is updated often and is chock-full of wonderful articles. Of course, the "personal stories" section is wonderful to browse through. Rainbowkids has a blog section, RKblogs, which is fun to read. A good cross-section... more

The Sea Chest was written by Toni Buzzeo and is illustrated by Mary GrandPre, of Harry Potter fame. It is a truly wonderful story that transcends the typical limits of most adoption books for children. This is probably my favorite adoption book for children, and one of my favorite non-adoption books, too.

Warning: it is guaranteed to make you cry, especially if you're a mom. (I'm actually tearing up right now just thinking about... more

Borya and the Burps, by Joan McNamara and illustrated by Dawn Majewski, is one of three books currently on the market about adoption from Russia. Well, technically, this book is about adoption from Eastern Europe, but that includes Russia so I include it in the three. The other two are my book, When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption, and Nikolai the only Bear, by Barbara Joose. I wrote about Nikolai yesterday. Today is all about Borya.

I like Borya and the Burps. I think it is a wonderful, respectful... more

It's book review week here at the Russian Adoption blog. Why, you ask? Because we're moving this week, I answer, and I've had to do all my blogs ahead of time. Thinking of a whole bunch of pithy topics in 2 short days isn't easy so I've decided to talk about the children's books about adoption that we have around the house.

Nikolai the Only Bear is by Barbara Joose and illustrated by Renata Liwska. This was the very first children's book about adoption from Russia on the market. I think it came out about a year ago, in March. It's about Nikolai, the only bear at orphanage... more

Okay, okay. I know this is a book about adoption from China. So why, you ask, are you including it in your Russian adoption blog?

Simple. It's the first book I read to Big J about adoption when we were first thinking about it. We'd already decided to adopt from Russia but at that time there were no books on Russian adoption available for children. It's also the book that inspired my book, When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption. I wanted to write something personal, just like I Love You Like Crazy Cakes,... more

Todd Parr rocks! We love, love, love Todd Parr in our house! We have The Family Book, The Mommy Book, and The Daddy Book, and we've checked all the rest out of the library. These are simple books, but they are simple genius. Here's the basic philosphy of his books:

We're all a little bit different and we're all a little bit the same. That's what's cool about the world.

Now, if you don't believe that and you don't want your kids learning about differences like, for example, multiracial families... more