Books for adoptive families

Thankfully, due to the increase in adoptions, there are more books available about adoption. Here are just a few that we would recommend:


Books for Parents:

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for todays parents, by Deborah Gray
Twenty Things Adoptive Kids wish their Adoptive Parents knew, Sherrie Eldridge
Toddler Adoption: A Weaver's Craft, by Mary Hopkins-Best
Dear Birthmother
The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family
Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for those touched by adoption, by Patricia Johnson

I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising healthy black and bi-racial children in a race- conscious world

Black Baby White Hands: A View From the Crib, by Dr. Jaiya John

Inside Transracial Adoption, by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall

Children's Books about Ethiopia/Adoption:

Storyteller's Beads, by Jane Kurtz
Fire on the Mountain, by Jane Kurtz
The Perfect Orange: A tale from Ethiopia, by Frank Araujo
The Saint and his Lion: The story of Tekla of Ethiopia, by Elaine Stone
The Color of Us, by Karen Katz
I wished for you: an Adoption Story, by Marianne Richmond
Tell me again about the night I was born, by Jamie Lee Curtis
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale, by Karen Katz

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

 ~Theodore Parker