Biracial Families

Hausherr, Rosmarie.Celebrating Families. 1997. (non-fiction)
This book depicts a wide variety of families, including a biracial family.

Meyers, Susan. Everywhere Babies. 2001.
This book depicts babies and their caregivers doing a wide variety of activities. Some of the babies and their caregivers are biracial.

Morris, Ann. Families. 2000. (non-fiction)
This book depicts a worldwide variety of families, including several biracial families.

Parr, Todd. The Family Book. 2003.
This book depicts a variety of families, but also suggests what makes all families the same, no matter what type of family it is! This book touches on families of different colors (illustrated with a family of fish: the mom is yellow, dad is green, and kids are purple, orange, and light green), and families who adopt (illustrated by a family of ducks adopting a penguin).

Pellegrini, Nina. Families are Different. 1991. (fiction)
This book depicts a variety of families, including a biracial family, as a young girl struggles with being adopted.

Ada, Alma Flor. I Love Saturdays y domingos. 2002.
In this story, a young girl spends each Saturday with her white paternal grandparents, and Sundays with her Spanish-speaking Mexican/Native American maternal grandparents. She loves both days equally and describes her activities with each.



Books Depicting Families Adopting Babies:


Bunting, Eve. Jin Woo. 2001. (fiction)
This is the story of an American family adopting a Korean baby. There is a young white boy in the story who was adopted first, and he is nervous about his parents adopting another baby.

Carlson, Nancy. My Family Is Forever. 2004.
This is the story of an American couple adopting a Korean baby, and how she grows up as part of the family.

Crum, Shutta. Fox and Fluff. 2002.
In this animal book, a chick hatches and thinks a fox is his father. The fox returns the chick to the chickens because he thinks the chick belongs with others of his kind. However, after both chick and fox are miserable, the fox adopts the chick.

Czech, Jan M. The Coffee Can Kid. 2002.
This is the story of an American family who have adopted a Korean baby. In this book, the adopted girl asks to hear the story of her birth and adoption.

Hodge, Deborah. Emma’s Story. 2003.
This is the story of a Canadian family who adopts a Chinese girl. As the young girl grows up, she has times where she doesn’t like looking different from her family. Her grandmother tells her the story of her adoption, which always makes her feel better!

Kasza, Keiko. A Mother for Choco. 1992.
In this story, a mother bear adopts a baby bird, a baby alligator, a baby hippo, and a baby piggy.

Lamperti, Noelle. Brown Like Me. 2000.
An African-American child is adopted by a white family.
*At this time, KCLS doesn’t own this book. We are working on buying it, but it currently can be purchased on Amazon.

Lewis, Rose. I Love You Like Crazy Cakes. 2000.
This is the story of an American woman who adopts a Chinese baby.

Newman, Leslea. Felicia’s Favorite Story. 2002.
This is the story of a lesbian couple who adopt a Guatemalan baby.

Pellegrini, Nina. Families are Different. 1991. (fiction)
This book depicts an American family adopting two Korean babies.

Simon, Norma. All Families are Special. 2003.
This book celebrates all kinds of families. In it, a teachers asks her students to tell about their families. One student, Sarah, tells how her family flew to China to adopt a baby.



Books depicting family members of different skin colors:


Adoff, Arnold. Black is Brown is Tan. 1973. (fiction)
This book depicts a biracial family (black mother, white father).

Crum, Shutta. Fox and Fluff. 2002.
In this animal book, a chick hatches and thinks a fox is his father. The fox returns the chick to the chickens because he thinks the chick belongs with others of his kind. However, after both chick and fox are miserable, the fox adopts the chick.

Kallok, Emma. Gem. 2001. (fiction)
This story depicts a biracial family (mother appears to be white, father black).

Senisi, Ellen B. For My Family, Love, Allie. 1998. (fiction)
This story depicts a biracial family first preparing for a family reunion, and then the family reunion itself (mother white, father black).

Williams, Vera B. More More More Said the Baby. 1990. (fiction)
This is a collection of three short stories featuring different babies. The second story, “Little Pumpkin,” features a black baby with a white grandmother.



Books exploring skin color:


Forche, Carolyn A. Colors Come from God…Just Like Me! 1995.
In this Christian story, a little girl looks at all of the things God created, including her beautiful brown skin.

Hudson, Cheryl Willis. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin. 1990.
This book celebrates having brown skin.

Katz, Karen. The Colors of Us. 1999. (fiction)
In this story, a little girl and her mother take a walk to observe everyone’s skin color.