Black Baby，White Hands：A View From the Crib   

by Dr．Jaiya John

Soul Water Rising．May 2005

$17．ISBN 0-971-33081-6  

The author is a young African American who was adopted（收養(yǎng)）from the crib（嬰兒床） by a white family in New Mexico in the 1970s．Dr．John tells about his feelings as he was trying to understand how best to deal with them． 

Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life

by Jerdine Nolen，illustrated（插圖）by Kadir Nelson

Simon&．Schuster Books for Young Readers．January 2005   

$16．95．ISBN 0-689-86866-9

Ages 5-10   

Hewitt is everything his parents could want in a son．But there’s just one problem-he’s very，very small while other members of his family are all proud giants（巨人）．But it turns out that Hewitt’s great，big character is all he really needs．