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10 best books like I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Rose A. Lewis): Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back, Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children, All the Colors of the Earth, Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis, Molly's Family, Donovan's Big Day, Inside Transracial Adoption, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, A Mother for Choco, Abuela

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0698115848
"Unusual and intelligent...An exemplary introduction to Native American culture with its emphasis on the importance of nature." — Publishers Weekly

In Native American legend, the thirteen scales on Old Turtle's back hold the key to the thirteen cycles of the moon and the changing...
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
AuthorSandra L. Pinkney
ISBN0439148928
I am black. I am unique.

Let's talk about racism! Ah, yes, I can see you heading for the exit already. That's okay, I totally get it. It's a rough topic. For those of you still with me:

How do you teach a child about racism or tell him/her about it? I don't know. I don't have a flippin' clue....
All the Colors of the Earth
AuthorSheila Hamanaka
ISBN0688170625
Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love—not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink, and more.

Included in Brightly.com's 2017 list of recommended diverse poetry picture books for kids, this beautifully illustrated book "celebrates...
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis
AuthorRobbin Gourley
ISBN0618158367
Long before the natural-food movement gained popularity, before greenmarkets sprouted across the United States, Edna Lewis championed purity of ingredients, regional cuisine, and the importance of bringing food directly from the farm to the table. She was a chef when female chefs—let alone...
Molly's Family
AuthorNancy Garden
ISBN0374350027
What makes a family?

The members of Ms. Marston's kindergarten class are cleaning and decorating their room for the upcoming Open School Night. Molly and Tommy work on drawing pictures to put on the walls. Molly draws her family: Mommy, Mama Lu, and her puppy, Sam. But when Tommy looks at her...
Donovan's Big Day
AuthorLesléa Newman
ISBN1582463328
Donovan's two moms are getting married, and he can't wait for the celebration to begin. After all, as ringbearer, he has a very important job to do. Any boy or girl with same-sex parents—or who knows a same-sex couple—will appreciate this picture book about love, family, and marriage.  The story...
Inside Transracial Adoption
AuthorGail Steinberg
ISBN0944934242
A resource guide for families considering transracial adoption. This book is the result of two families' experiences adoption multicultural children. Somewhat limited in scope and attitude. The section on Black hair care is well done. Authors: Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall. Ages: Adult. Hardcover....
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
AuthorSherrie Eldridge
"Birthdays may be difficult for me."

"I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family."

"When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me."

"I am afraid you will abandon me."

The voices of adopted children are...
A Mother for Choco
AuthorKeiko Kasza
ISBN0698113640
Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.

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...
Abuela
AuthorArthur Dorros
ISBN0140562257
I found this book at a thrift store the other day, and as soon as I saw it a memory was triggered: my own Abuela (aka Grammie) would read stacks of books to us grandchildren and this was one of them. I had forgotten all about it! I didn't buy it, but it was nice to glance through it and have some good memories. It...
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale
AuthorKaren Katz
ISBN0805050132
"Your baby has been born! She is wonderful. Come quickly and get her."

This is a magical, reassuring story of one adoptive family's beginnings, told in words and pictures that are just right for the youngest child--an ideal story to share with families everywhere.

A long-awaited...
T is for Terrible
AuthorPeter McCarty
I am a dinosaur, otherwise known as a terrible lizard.
I do not know why I am so terrible.

From a Caldecott Medal honoree comes the story of an endearing Tyrannosaurus rex who wonders why he can't be a vegetarian

Tyrannosaurus rex is a terrible dinosaur; of this, everyone is certain....
Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0689844581
Jenny's favorite uncle, Peter, is getting married, and everyone is happy happy -- everyone, that is, except Jenny. While her family runs about getting ready for the traditional Chinese wedding -- preparing for the tea ceremony, exchanging good-luck money called hungbau, helping the bride with her...
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
AuthorKay Ann Johnson
ISBN0963847279
Kay Johnson has done groundbreaking research on abandonment and adoption in China. In Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son, Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the government's population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences,...
Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash
AuthorSarah Weeks
ISBN0694012025
This fun rhyming and verse book is about a squash Mrs. McNosh plants, but then things get out of hand. The squash grows too quickly which causes problems for Mrs. McNosh and the whole neighborhood. At first, it looks just the newspaper boy, then it gets too big and squishes the cat, then it keeps on growing...
black is brown is tan
AuthorArnold Adoff
ISBN0064432696
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
AuthorJamie Lee Curtis
ISBN0064435814
Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, the New York Times bestselling team behind Today I Feel Silly and I’m Gonna Like Me, bring us a tender and funny picture book for every parent and child. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a special celebration of the love and joy an adopted child creates...
We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families
AuthorTodd Parr
ISBN0316016683
In a kid-friendly, accessible way, this book explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family by showing one perspective on the adoption experience. We Belong Together is about sharing your home and sharing your heart to make a family that belongs together. With an understanding...
The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale
AuthorGrace Lin
ISBN0807569224
There is an ancient Chinese belief that an invisible, unbreakable red thread connects all those who are destined to be together. A king and queen rule a beautiful and peaceful land. They should be full of joy and contentment, but they both feel a strange pain that worsens every day. Then a peddler's magic...
Sam and the Lucky Money
AuthorKaren Chinn
ISBN1880000539
Sam can hardly wait to go shopping with his mom. It's Chinese New Year's day and his grandparents have given him the traditional gift of lucky money-red envelopes called leisees (lay-sees). This year Sam is finally old enough to spend it any way he chooses. Best of all, he gets to spend his lucky money in...
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
AuthorLois Ruskai Melina
ISBN0060957174
In this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in psychology, sociology, and medicine to guide parents through all stages of their child's development....
I Wished for You: An Adoption Story
AuthorMarianne Richmond
ISBN1934082066
This is a beautiful story about adoption and explaining to a child how and why they were adopted. With the premise of a mummy bear and a baby bear, the mummy bear tells the baby bear about how she wished for him and how lucky she is now that she has him.

Even with the premise of wishing, the story does...
Little Miss Spider
AuthorDavid Kirk
ISBN0439543150
Little Miss Spider is cuter than ever in this new mini-book format!

On the very first day of Miss Spider's life, she pops out of her egg to find her brothers and sisters scooting all around her. But where is her mother? Lucky for Little Miss Spider, kind and caring Betty Beetle is there to fill the...
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