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Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Deborah D. Gray
Perspectives Press (IN), 2002
Awesome book!
Excellent book, essential resource, practical and easy to read. This book and her new one (see below) are really all you need to read on this subject. The new one is better in my opinion, but both are terrific.
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After ...
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Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With ...
Heather T. Forbes
Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC, 2006
Excellent and practical
This book is very well written. The author is very well-versed on the therapy he advocates for children with Reactive Attachment Disorder. Our daughter's Attachment Therapist agrees with his methods and found them very easy to apply, especially with younger children. ...
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A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
Keiko Kasza
Putnam Juvenile, 1996
A mother for Choco; a story for my daughter
I absolutely adore this book. My sister gave it to us before we traveled to China to adopt our daughter. She's just over two now and has read this book with me dozens of times. We both love the illustrations, and even at a very young age, she "gets" the idea that Choco ...
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Three Little Words: A Memoir
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Atheneum, 2008
required reading for social work students
Excellent book that describes what is both wrong and right with the foster care system. Reading this book should be a requirement for all social work students. This book is one of those "hard-to-put-down" books that is both informative and enjoyable.
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Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Sherrie Eldridge
Delta, 1999
Twenty Things Adopted KIds Wish...
This book was terrific! We are getting ready to adopt a sibling group from the foster care system & it gave us a lot to think about from someone who really knows what they're talking about! I ready it through and am now reading it to my husband as we take trips in ...
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Digging to America: A Novel
Anne Tyler
Ballantine Books, 2007
Anne Tyler at Her Best
Oh gosh, folks ... hear the news that this book is not so much about its stated subject matter -- the adopted Asian children, or the American and Iranian families into which they are adopted -- as it is about who these people are and how they react ...
The book ...
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The Bean Trees: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver
HarperTorch, 1998
A Remarkable Guide to Life
Taylor is a high spirited and strong willed girl whose whole life has been lead in Kentucky. Taylor had three goals in her life: not to get pregnant, to leave Pittman County, and to change her name. She ended up buying a '55 Volkswagen bug and leaving Pittman County ...
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On the Night You Were Born
Nancy Tillman
Feiwel & Friends, 2006
great for baby's bookshelf
Ive received several baby shower invites over the last couple of years that ask for a "book for the bab's bookshelf". I love this book because it has great pictures and tells the child that on the night he/she was born the whole world celebrated. When the child is a ...
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Run
Ann Patchett
Harper, 2007
typical Ann Patchett
The former mayor and father of three (1 natural and 2 adoptive) Bernard Doyle is the protagonist is Ann Patchett's bargain priced novel Run. I won't say I'm the biggest Ann Patchett fan and during the course of reading Run I felt like the tome would last an eon or so, ...
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Reunion (Redemption Series-Baxter 1, Book 5)
Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley
Tyndale House Publishers, 2004
Moved me to tears
Rarely does a book move me to tears but this one did. This book was well written. I though Elizabeth and her family demonstrated great courage during this time of adversity. Not all was sad in the book. I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't read ...
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They Cage the Animals at Night (Signet)
Jennings Michael Burch
Signet, 1985
I've read it over ten times
Since I first read this book over 15 years ago I've read the book over 10 times. I read it three times the first year. I felt it was an amazing story, very touching, and able to tug at me each time I read it. The strength and courage that the author had was amazing.
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Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft
Mary Hopkins-Best
Perspectives Press (IN), 1998
A must read for those even thinking of adopting a toddler
I found this to be a great book. It really opened my eyes to what a toddler adoption could be like. I highly recommend it.
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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Jamie Lee Curtis
HarperTrophy, 2000
Spot-On Positive Vibes for Adopted Kids and their Parents
Tell Me Again... is my favorite storybook about adoption. The little girl whose voice we hear is a happy and proud teller of her own adoption tale, and her parents' essences come through loud, clear and wonderfully human. The illustrations provide kids with zillions of ...
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Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections
EMK Press, 2006
What to expect + What to do
Adoption Parenting is written in parent-friendly language and covers just about everything an adoptive parent needs (or will need) to know. The book provides something no other adoption book has: summaries of general child development and parenting practices and the ...
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The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family
Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Best Parenting Book on My Shelf!
As a parent of three domestically-adopted kids, this book has been a lifeline, a lifesaver and has helped us tremendously in getting the kids settled into a safe and healthy routine.
We're first-time parents and wanted a sane, easy-to-follow book to guide us through ...
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