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Books on Adoption

Listed in alphabetical order by book title under major topics.

General

A Child's Journey through Placement, by Vera Fahlberg

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids, by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky

And Baby Makes Three, by John and Julie Gottman

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, by Deborah Gray

Family Book, by Todd Parr

How to Talk so Kids Can Learn At Home and In School, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

How to Talk so Kids will Listen, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

It's Okay To Be Different, by Todd Parr

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma, by Deborah Gray

One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl, Lost Then Found, by Kathy Harrison

Parenting from the Inside Out, by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell

Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families heal and Grow, by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky

Raising Adopted Children: Practical, Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent, by Louis Ruskai Melina

Telling the Truth to your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past, by Betsy Keefer and Jayne Schooler

The Daddy Book, by Todd Parr

The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, by Nina Bernstein

The Mommy Book, by Todd Parr

The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir, by Victoria Rowell

Touchpoints—3 to 6, by T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua D. Sparrow

Touchpoints—Birth to Three, by T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua D. Sparrow

Three Little Words: A Memoir, by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, by Marc Parent

Understanding Looked after Children: an Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care, by Jenne Guishard-Pine, Suzanne McCall, Lloyd Hamilton, Andrew Wiener

Walk a Mile in My Shoes: A Book about Biological Parents for Foster Parents and Social Workers, by Judith Lee

We Belong Together, by Todd Parr

When Do I Go Home? Intervention Strategies for Foster Parents and Helping Professionals, by Sally Hoyle

Transracial Adoption

Inside Transracial Adoption, by Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall

Black Children, by Janice Hale-Benson

Raising Healthy Multi-Racial Adoptive Families, by Harriett Fancot

Everyday Acts against Racism: Raising Children in a Multicultural World, by Maureen Reddy

In Their Own Words: Transracial Adoptees Tell their Stories, by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda

A Mother for Choco (for children), by Keiko Kasza

Lamb-A-Roo (for children), by Diana Kimpton and Rosalind Beardshaw

Rosie's Family: An Adoption Story (for children), by Lori Rosove

LGBT Families

And Tango Makes Three (for children), by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Daddy's Roommate (for children), by Michael Willhoite

Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, by Abigail Garner

King & King (for children), by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland

One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dads, Blue Dads (for children), by Johnny Valentine

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant, by Dan Savage

Books for Children

A Terrible Thing Happened — A Story for Children who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma, by Margaret Holmes and Sasha Mudlaff

Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can't Live With Their Parents, by Janice Levy

I Miss My Foster Parents, by Stefan Herbert

It's My Life, by Casey Family Programs

Kids Need to be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care, by Julie Nelson

Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care, by Jennifer Wilgocki and Marcia Kahn Wright

Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story, by Brodzinsky

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis

Open Adoption

The Open Adoption Experience, by Lois R Melina and Sharon K. Roszia

The Visit, by Latisha Herbert

Infertility

Adopting After Infertility, by Patricia Irwin Johnston

For Birthparents

Pregnant? Adoption is an Option, by Jeanne Warren Lindsay

 


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