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Featured Books |
This month the Anti-Defamation League is pleased to feature three books that help educators to introduce and discuss the issue of adoption with students. Adoption is a useful lens through which to view family diversity in the U.S. because adoptive families come in all kinds. Adoptive families can be multiracial, international and headed by single or same-sex parents. Because adoption is a topic that is often cloaked in secrecy and shame, children in adoptive families—especially those who look “different”—are often the targets of name-calling, social exclusion and other forms of bias. By discussing family diversity openly, educators can create environments in which adoptive and non-adoptive students are valued equally and can become allies to students growing up in families of all types.
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Mother for Choco
Keiko Kasza
Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she's his mother—but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children—a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator—and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together.
| ISBN: |
0698113640 |
| Year: |
1996 |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Grade Level: |
PreK - 1 |
| Pages: |
32 |
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All Families are Different
Sol Gordon, Vivien Cohen (Illustrator)
 This nonfiction picture book reassures students that there is no such thing as "normal" when it comes to families, and that family differences should be celebrated. The author touches upon a wide range of family differences and issues including adoption, multiracial families, foster care, religion and same-sex headed families.
| ISBN: |
1573927651 |
| Year: |
2000 |
| Publisher: |
Prometheus Books |
| Grade Level: |
2 - 6 |
| Pages: |
50 |
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Kimchi and Calamari
Rose Kent
When his eighth-grade class is assigned to write about their ancestors' journey to America, Joseph Calderaro has a problem. Joseph was adopted from Korea and his parents are raising him in their Italian-American tradition. Though his favorite foods are calamari and eggplant parmesan, Joseph begins to wonder about his Korean heritage. His parents have no information to share and, frustrated, Joseph makes something up, passing off a famous Korean athlete as his grandfather. After his essay is chosen for submission to a national contest, Joseph must face up to the conflict he is experiencing.
| ISBN: |
0060837691 |
| Year: |
2007 |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollins Publishers |
| Grade Level: |
4 - 7 |
| Pages: |
220 |
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