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- Ethiopia, US Billionaire's Titan Resources Signs Oil Accord - Bloomberg
- Ethiopia targets women's 5000m podium sweep - guardian.co.uk
- Dining: Veggie goes to Ethiopia - Jerusalem Post
- Ethiopia's Gelete Burka failed to advance to Women's 1500m Final - Nazret.com
- US suspends refugee program after DNA fraud - AFP
Every Human Has Rights
This page is a work in progress. I hope to have more recommendations, descriptions, and pictures soon. If you have a favorite book you’d like to include, please let me know!
General Parenting
Hold Onto Your Kids, by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
A Path for Parents, by Sara Burns. Not so much a book about parenting as a book for parents. It help parents find ways to keep their spiritual lives whole and healthy amidst the daily demands of living with and caring for children.
Sleep
Adoption
Maybe I’m an idiot, but I actually learned a lot from this book when I was first starting the adoption process! It explains basic things like why adoption takes so long, the different stages of the process, what a dossier is, what a referral is, all that stuff that just rolls off my tongue now but which I knew next to nothing two years ago.
A collection of essays about various aspects of raising adopted children. Adopted children are children, and the similarities between raising adopted children and one’s biological children probably outweigh the difference. But there are some crucial differences as any parent of a newly adopted toddler who is consuming 3000 calories a day…. or who is trying to explain why he or she was left in a market… or is helping a child answer strangers’ questions about why they are a different race from the rest of the family knows. Because the book is in essay format it is easy to dip in and out of as needed. The editors run a Yahoo discussion group about the book.
Ethiopia
There is No Me Without You, by Melissa Faye Green A story about an orphanage in Addis Ababa and the woman who runs it. It gives good background for the reasons there are so many orphans in Ethiopia, and a good impression of what Ethiopia is like.
Books for Babies
Anything by Sandra Boynton, but I particularly like Barnyard Dance, One, Two, Three, and The Belly Button Book: These books are just a whole lot of fun!
More, More, More Said the Baby, by Vera B. Williams. Funny and touching vignettes of family life that babies can relate to. The families are of different races, and one is an interracial family.
Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang. A sweet bedtime story featuring an African-American baby counting down to bed time with her loving father.
Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers
The Family Book, by Todd Parr
Over the Moon, by Karen Katz