Book Recommendations
Below is a curated list of books on various adoption themes categorized by audience.
For Parents
- A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents edited by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe
- Adoption Is a Family Affair by Patricia Irwin Johnston
- Adoption Without Fear edited by James L. Gritter
- Attaching in Adoption by Deborah D. Gray
- Becoming A Family by Lark Eshleman
- Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by David Brodzinsky
- Beneath a Tall Tree by Jean Strauss
- Communicating With the Adopted Child by Miriam Komar
- Connecting with Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children by Denise B. Lacher and Todd Nichols
- Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber and Phylis Speedlin
- Launching a Baby’s Adoption by Patricia Irwin Johnston
- Making Sense of Adoption by Lois Melina
- Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
- Raising Adopted Children by Lois Melina*** (highly recommended)
- Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child by Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
- Talking With Young Children About Adoption by Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher
- Telling the Truth To Your Adopted or Foster Child by Betsy Keefer & Jane E. Schooler
- The Open Adoption Experience by Lois Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia
- To My Child Concerning Your Birth Mother by Joanne Green
For Young Children
- A Koala For Katie by Jonathan London: Katie vows to care as well for her new adopted baby--a toy koala--as her own adoptive parents have for her, proving that love is what makes a family. (Terminology: Uses term "real mother" instead of "birth mother")
- A Mother For Choco by Keiko Kasra: A story of how families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together.
- Adopted and Wondering: Drawing Out Feelings (art therapy workbook) by Marge Eat
- Adoption Is For Always by Linda Walvoord Girard
- All About Adoption: How Families Are Made and How Kids Feel About It by Marc Nemiroff
- Did My First Mother Love Me? by Kathryn Ann Miller
- God Found Us You by Lisa Tawn Bergren and Laura J. Bryant
- Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon
- Horace by Holly Keller
- How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole
- I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis
- I Wished for You by Marianne Richmond
- Little Lost Bat by Sandra Markle
- Mr. Rogers-Let’s Talk About It: Adoption by Fred Rogers
- Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
- The Day We Met You by Phoebe Koehler
- We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families by Todd Parr
- Wild About You by Judy Sierra
- Yes, I'm Adopted! by Sharlie Zinniger
For Older Children
- How It Feels To Be Adopted by Jill Krementz
- The Face In The Mirror by Marion Crook
- Who Am I?...And Other Questions of Adopted Kids by Charlene Giannetti
- Why Didn’t She Keep Me? by Barbara Burlingham-Brown
- Why Was I Adopted? by Carole Livingston
- W.I.S.E. Up! Powerbook by Marilyn Schoettle
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