The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption write by Jean Davies Okimoto. This book was released on 2015-02-19. The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many people from North America make the long journey to their children in China. But first the family has to complete all the adoption-agency paperwork, have interviews, fill out legal forms, and receive approvals. Then a tiny photograph of their child arrives. Finally, they travel to China to embrace their long-awaited child.
The White Swan Express
The White Swan Express - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The White Swan Express write by Jean Davies Okimoto. This book was released on 2002. The White Swan Express available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 parents, including a lesbian couple.
Brother Juniper
Brother Juniper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brother Juniper write by Diane Gibfried. This book was released on 2006. Brother Juniper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brother Juniper lives in the hills of Assisi with Father Francis and seven other brothers. Brother Juniper is the most generous of the brothers. He is so generous that he will happily give the robe off his back to someone in need-even if that leaves him with nothing else to wear. When Father Francis asks Brother Juniper to look after the church by himself one day, the other brothers are very worried about what they"ll find when they return. But with his kind heart and simple ways, Brother Juniper reminds them all what it means to truly look after a church. This fresh take on the traditional stories of Brother Juniper is beautifully rendered in playful and expressive paintings, creating an unusual story that inspires equal amounts of laughter and goodwill.
Global Families
Global Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Families write by Catherine Ceniza Choy. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Global Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.
Family Matters
Family Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family Matters write by Ruth Lyn Meese. This book was released on 2009-11-19. Family Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is designed to give librarians and teachers guidance on the subject of adoption and foster care—both as themes in children's literature and as issues affecting many students. To help librarians and teachers gain a deeper understanding of this sensitive subject, Family Matters: Adoption and Foster Care in Children's Literature takes a close look at 115 works of children's literature that have themes related to adoption and foster care, including many that have received the Newberry Award, Caldecott Award, or other prestigious honors from the American Library Association. Family Matters is not just a digest of titles. It is an expert resource for addressing adoption and foster care in the classroom, both as a literary subject and as a personal issue with students. The book opens with an historical overview of adoption and foster care, then reviews level-appropriate titles by age group—K-grade 2, grades 3-5, and grades 6-8. Coverage includes discussions of the impact of adoption and foster care on normal development, as well as suggestions for safe language to use in the classroom, and fun, effective activities for each title.
