Books for baby (because you asked...)

and by "asked", I mean that at least one of you is curious. :)

As I mentioned in the previous post, we registered for a lot of books for our shower. We haven't received all of them, and some of them I registered for on a recommendation and so haven't necessarily read them myself. Anyway, here's a list of some of those books, many of which are adoption related and/or friendly:

• A Mother for Choco (about a bird looking for a mother who looks like him, and is eventually adopted by a bear that has three other children - an alligator, a hippo and a pig)
• And Tango Makes Three (we got this one in Spanish: "Tres con Tango". It's about two male penguins that fall in love at the Central Park Zoo. They want a baby but can't have one like the other penguins and so one of the zoo rangers puts an egg in their nest for them to hatch and raise. The baby penguin is named Tango and is raised by his two dads. This is actually a TRUE story!! How cool is that?)
• Several Todd Parr books - LOVE him!!: It's okay to be different (adoption mentioned); The Family Book (adoption mentioned); The Peace Book; The Feelings Book
• More, More, More said the baby (three short and simple stories - adoption friendly in that one of the families presented is transracial)
• La araña muy ocupada (in English, The Very Busy Spider; a classic!!)
• Si le das un panqueque a una cerdita (in English, If you give a pig a pancake...; This is a series of books, If you give a Mouse a cookie, etc...)
• Nappy Hair (The story of how a young African-American girl got her hair. It's told/written in a call and response)
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (A fun story that helps children learn the alphabet)
• Baby Talk (A board book with simple drawings of different types of faces - happy, sad, yummy, icky, etc...)
• A Pebble for your Pocket (A book about the teachings of Buddha written in a way that is accessible for children)
• I Love you, Dude (This is one of my favorite books to read with my fifth graders. It's about a doodle of an elephant that comes to life and goes searching for a family around New York City)
• Any book by Ezra Jack Keats (LOVE this author, I read him aloud to my fifth graders all the time. I registered for a bunch, but haven't received any, yet.)
• Peaceful Piggy Mediation (Also read this with my fifth graders last year. Very cute book about peaceful piggies and how they maintain their peacefulness!)
• Pablo's Tree (about an adopted boy named after his grandfather)
• The Day We Met You (adoption friendly, but haven't received or read it, yet)
• All the Colors We Are: Todos los colores de nuestra piel/The Story of how we get our skin color (haven't received or read this one, yet)
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (This is probably the most well-recognized children's book about adoption. I've actually never read it, but I know that someone is getting it for us, so I'll be reading it soon!)

Other authors that I love and plan to fill A's library with are: Patricia Polacco, Vera Williams (she wrote More, More, More said the baby), Eve Bunting, Cynthia Rylant, Eric Carle, Leo Leonni, Donald Crews, Gary Soto, and Mem Fox.

Wow. I could talk about children's books all day long!!!! In another post, I'll put some of the books for adults that I've read on adoption and children in general. For now, I'm off to read about what you all are up to.....