2010 Reading List

Several of you have been asking me about our favorite adoption-related books from this year...

Here's our list of favorites (it's really just the top of the iceberg--we also have books on parenting...child development...more kids adoption books...kids family books...transracial and transcultural families...general kids books...books to aid toddler ESL...the list is endless...I truly should have bought stock in Amazon and half.com this year:-).

I think my New Year's blogging resolution will be to post reviews of each book by the end of 2011.

For now, here's our list of faves:

1.  Parenting Your Internationally Adoption Child by Patty Cogen

2. The Connected Child by Karen Purvis

3. There is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene

4. Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best

5. Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child by Betsy Keefer and Jane Schooler

6. 20 Things Adopted Kids Wished Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

7. Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches by Russell D. Moore (this is a great book about adoption, but I disagree with his approach to his children's birth culture and history.  Adoption here on earth is different than spiritual adoption in that very significant way...children's first families, first cultures, and history MATTER!)

8. A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza (kids book)

9. Horace by Holly Keller (kids book)

10. Rosie's Family: An Adoption Story by Lori Rosove (kids book)

Additionally, if you are looking for some interesting reading on Ethiopia here are our current faves:

1. Held at a Distance: A ReDiscovery of Ethiopia by Rebecca Haile

2. There is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene

3. E is for Ethiopia

4. Cutting for Stone (a novel)

5. Ethiopian Voices: Tsion's Life by Stacy Bellward (see Tsion in action in the videos below)

I am currently reading:

1. Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa

2. Human Rights Watch: Development Without Freedom, How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia