Adoption from China - Childrens Fiction
Discover heartwarming children's fiction about adoption from China. Explore our curated list of adoption books that celebrate family, love, and cultural heritage.
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Allison
by Allen Say
When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed discovery through the …
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An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey
by Stephan Molnar-Fenton
This affecting picture book, based on the author's own adoption of a Chinese baby, tells the larger story of every adopted baby as each begins …
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At Home in this World
by Jean MacLeod
A nine-year-old girl describes what she knows of her adoption from China.
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A China Adoption Story
by Frances M. Koh
While looking through the family photo album, four-year-old Laura Shu Mei notices that she looks different from her parents, and asks her mother why.
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Emma's Story
by Deborah Hodge
When Emma sets out to make a cookie family with her Grandma, the happy afternoon suddenly turns sad. The cookies are meant to look like …
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Every Year on Your Birthday
by Rose A. Lewis
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. …
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Families Are Forever
by Deb Capone
Families Are Forever is a heartwarming tale about family love and beginnings. The story introduces Rain, a nearly six year old Chinese-American adopted girl, and …
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Finding Joy
by Marion Coste
Shu-li, an infant girl who had to be sent away by her family in China, is adopted by an American family and renamed Joy.
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Happy Adoption Day!
by John McCutcheon
This adaptation of McCutcheon's song commemorates the day when a child joins an adoptive family. Complete with musical notation, these verses reassure adopted children they …
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I Don't Have Your Eyes
by Carrie A. Kitze
Family connections are vitally important to children as they begin to find their place in the world. For transracial and transcultural adoptees, domestic adoptees, and …
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I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
by Rose A. Lewis
This story of a woman who travels to China to adopt a baby girl, based on the author's own experiences, is a celebration of the …
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Just Add One Chinese Sister
by Patricia McMahon
The story of Claire's arrival in the United States from her birth home in China.
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Mama's Wish/Daughter's Wish
by Debbie Blackington
In the first story in this upside-down book, a mother describes to her daughter how she especially brought her from China. In the second story, …
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Mommy Far, Mommy Near
by Carol Antoinette Peacock
Young Elizabeth feels a range of emotions as she learns that she has two mommies: one in China and one in America. Her adoptive mother …
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My Family is Forever
by Nancy Carlson
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 …
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Mei Mei
by Ed Young
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
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A Quilt of Wishes
by Teresa Orem Werner
A story about a little baby girl in China waiting for her adoptive parents to bring her home.
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The Red Blanket
by Eliza Thomas
Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby. Based on the author's life.
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Seeds of Love
by Mary E. Petertyl
Carly works through feelings of anticipation and fear when her parents travel to another country without her to adopt her baby sister.
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Shaoey and Dot
by Mary Beth Chapman
Shaoey & Dot: Bug Meets Bundle is an endearing tale told from the point of view of one little ladybug, Dot, who happens upon a …
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Shaoey and Dot
by Mary Beth Chapman
When the lights go out during a lightning storm, Shaoey, a young Chinese American girl, is frightened until Dot the ladybug reminds her of God's …
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Shaoey and Dot
by Mary Beth Chapman
It's Christmas Eve morning at Shaoey's house, and Dot, the ladybug, is all aflutter. But when the excited little girlbug goes to wake her human …
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Three Names of Me
by Mary Cummings
Ada has three names. Wang Bin is what the caregivers called her at her Chinese orphanage. Ada is the name her American parents gave her. …
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Waiting for May
by Janet Morgan Stoeke
A young boy looks forward to the day when a new sister, who will be adopted from China, joins his family.
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We See the Moon
by Carrie A. Kitze
Opening the adoption dialogue at an early age, this picture book is told from a child's perspective and allows the questions in an adopted child's …
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The White Swan Express
by Jean Davies Okimoto
Across North America, people in four different homes prepare for a special trip to China, while four baby girls in China await their new adoptive …