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Gift of Love International Adoptions, Inc. offers links to resources on the web.  Below you will find links to information regarding different resources available to adoptive families including culture, adoptive families, traveling, parenting, and Medical or behavioral disorders. 

 

Newly added Books:

  • Celebrate Chinese New Year, byElaine A. Kule

  • The Next New Year, by Janet S. Wong

  • Barron's Spanish The Easy Way, By Barron's (Available in GOL Library)

Books

 

China

  • Celebrate Chinese New Year, byElaine A. Kule

  • Celebrating Chinese New Year, by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

  • Chinese New Year, by Catherine Chambers

  • Chinese New Year: A Time for Parades, Family and Friends, by Fay Robinson

  • My First Chinese New Year, by Karen Katz

  • The Next New Year, by Janet S. Wong

 

Language

  • Barron's Spanish The Easy Way, By Barron's (Available in GOL Library)

Travel

  • Culture Shock Ukraine, by Meredith Dalton

  • Culture Shock Vietnam,  by Claire Ellis

  • Foders: Exploring Vietnam 2nd Edition,  by Foders

  • Lonely Planet Vietnam,  by Mason Florence and Robert Storey

  • The Rough Guide to Vietnam, Jan Dodd and Mark Lewis

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Ukraine

  • Culture Shock Ukraine, by Meredith Dalton

  • Luba and the Wren, by Patricia Polacco

  • Simply Ukraine, by Tania D'Avignon

  • The Birds' Gift: A Ukrainian Easter Story, by Katya Krenina and Eric A. Kimmel

  • The Keeping Quilt, by Patricia Polacco

  • The Mitten, by Alvin R. Tresselt

  • The Trees of the Dancing Goats, by Patricia Polacco

  • The Wolf Who came Christmas Caroling, by Ukranian Fairy Tales

  • Two Lands: New Visions, by Janice Kulyk Keefer and Solomea Pavlychko

  • When Jessie Came Across the Sea, by Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch

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Vietnam

  • 4 Hours in My Lai, by Michael Bilton

  • Asian Tales and Tellers, by Cathy Spagnoli

  • Behind the Red Mist, by Ho Anh Thai

  • Catfish and Mandala: A 2-Wheel Voyage through the Landscape and memory of Vietnam,  by Andrew X. Pham

  • Children of the Dragon, by Sherry Garland and Trina Schart Hyman

  • Culture Shock Vietnam,  by Claire Ellis

  • Dancing Feet, by Charlotte Agell

  • Families are Forever, by Craig Shemin and Deb Capone

  • Foders: Exploring Vietnam 2nd Edition,  by Foders

  • Good Bye Vietnam, by Gloria Whelan

  • Here are My Hands, by Bill Martin and John Archambault

  • Hoang Anh: A Vietnamese-American Boy, by Lawrence Migdale

  • In the Small Pond, by Denise Fleming

  • Journey Home, by Lawrence McKay

  • Leaving Vietnam: A Journey of Tuan Ngo, by Sarah S. Kilborne and Melissa Sweet

  • Lonely Planet Vietnam,  by Mason Florence and Robert Storey

  • Shadow's and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam,  by Robert Templer

  • Sing for your Father, Su Phan, by Stella Revsner and Fay Tang

  • Tam's Slipper: A Story from Vietnam, by Lum

  • The Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales, by Lynette Dyer Vuong and Vo-Dinh Mai

  • The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend, by Aaron Sheppard and Joseph Daniel Fiedler

  • The Lotus Seed,  by Sherry Garland and Tatsuro Kiuchi

  • The Rough Guide to Vietnam, Jan Dodd and Mark Lewis

  • The Squiggle, by Carol Lexa Schaefer

  • The Stars, The Earth, The River, by le Minh Khue and Wayne Karlin

  • Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth,  by Mary Cross and Frances FitzGerald

  • When You Were Born in Vietnam, by Therese and William Bartlett

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