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OCDF Publications

OCDF provides an ever-growing list of publications suitable for the adoption community, multi-cultural families, Chinese families, teachers and educators desiring to share Chinese culture with children, adults, and the business community.

We currently accept phone orders for publications we have in-stock at our store. Online orders coming soon! To order, call 309-829-8202 (Toll Free: 1-866-460-OCDF), or email to lynn@ocdf.org or amy@ocdf.org . Payment type accepted: - checks, money order, Visa and Mastercard.

Chinese Culture Active Learning Series

Each book in this series includes teacher introduction and planning strategies, bulletin board resources and ideas, class discussion topics and projects, student information sheets, student activities, student Q&A, and references and resources.

Every book comes with its own CD-rom (Win/Mac), designed to complement the book's information with great multimedia features such as story-telling in English and Mandarin, music, interviews, photos, story handouts, additional teacher tips and charts, even more student handouts and activities, lunar calendars, internet resource links, and puzzles.

The Chinese Culture Active Learning Series is endorsed by Huang Youyi, Vice President of China International Publishing Group and Vice President of Translators Association of China, and Lin Wusun, Retired President of CIPG, Senior Editor and Translator.

Find out more about the titles in this series.

OCDF's Chinese Culture Kits

Arts, Crafts, Games, Dance, & Music!

Hands-on activities designed for ages K-8 as part of our Chinese Culture Active Learning Series. Each kit contains supplies for 10 children. Kids can learn how to make their own tangrams, do a ribbon dance, make a Tibetan longevity bracelet, make pole puppets, fold a paper jumping frog, make a kite, play the erhu (instrument included!), and lots more great activities. These kits include high-quality materials developed by Chinese artisans, as well as a teacher/parent introduction sheet to provide the history and background of the activity and student handouts. Ideal for classroom use, club activities, cultural heritage days, homeschooling, and birthday parties!

Download the Chinese Culture Kits brochure (PDF) for more information, or download the order form (PDF) for pricing and kit specifications.

Explore-a-Province Series

The Explore-A-Province in China Book Series is designed for teachers, professors, home-schoolers, and parents of adopted children from China, or for anyone interested in learning more about the many provinces of China! There will be one book for each Province and major municipality in China.

These books are beautifully designed with full-color photos and illustrations on each page. Each edition is hard-bound with sections covering such topics as history, literature, architecture, foods, famous people, things to see and do, and maps. A teacher's guide is available for each book to provide strategies for using these books in an educational setting. Each book is written from the perspective of a young person (high school or college study abroad student) who travels for the summer to learn about that province. These books are written to be enjoyable and fun reads, as well as to present a visually stunning portrait of each province.

Find out more about the titles in this series.

China for Children Magazine

China for Children is published quarterly. Each edition is soft-bound and in full-color. Subscriptions make great gifts for kids! And don't forget teachers, classmates, grandparents, support groups, culture classes, your favorite pediatrician, and your neighbors.

Each issue features a fun topic written for the K-8 grade range, and cover such topics as:

About China - People, Places, Language
Great Expectations/Innovations - Science and Technology, Current Events
Story Corner - Poetry, Legends, Literature
Arts of China - Visual and Performing Arts
Customs and Culture - Holidays, History, Religion, Philosophy and Society

Find out how to subscribe.

Books about Adoption

OCDF Publications has produced two books about adoption from China, focusing on one often-neglected category of adoptive families: the single mother. Both books are available by phone order from our Charity Gift Shop (1-866-460-OCDF).

OCDF Quarterly Newsletters

Keep up with all the OCDF news with a full-color, soft-bound, 28 page newsletter published quarterly. Subscribers ($20/year, includes shipping) receive a print version mailed directly from Beijing.

We also make all our newsletters available to download for free in PDF format! See the list below:

Winter 2008
Fall 2007
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Winter 2007
Fall 2006
Summer 2006

China Photo Essay Books

Jane has recently begun uploading photos from China to a new online service, Blurb.com, which has proven to be a great way for us to make available some beautiful pictorial books, worthy of any coffee table! The books are available in either soft- or hard-cover, and you can order them by phone from our Charity Gift Shop (1-866-420-OCDF), or online from our Blurb Bookstore.

Books currently available include:

Hutongs of Beijing in Black and White
Rural China in Black and White
Life in Rural China
Kids in Rural China

Other Books

We also sell other books related to adoption parenting and China in our Charity Gift Shop. Please click here to see a complete list of the other books we carry.

History of OCDF Publications

OCDF Publications division began in 1995 when OCDF embarked on its quarterly newsletter and first book: New American Families - Chinese Daughters and their Single Mothers. Since then we have published a second paperback book on single-parent adoption from China called Finding Happiness - Single Mothers Share Their China Adoption Stories. In addition, we have a co-publishing venture with Dolphin Books, a division of China International Publishing Group, in Beijing, China to produce a series of books for teachers/parents of chidlren in the k-8 age range. Forty thematic books will comprise the Chinese Culture Active Learning Series. A team of publishing professionals has been working for a year on this series with 5 books completed and several in process. We are currently developing a second series of books: Explore-A-Province in China. One book for every Province will be produced by our team in Beijing.