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Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Michael Thompson, Cathe O'Neill-Grace, ...

Ballantine Books, 2002

This book is important.

+ Worst Enemies/ Best Friends Beacon Street Girls
+ Children's social lives
+ AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  
  











  



  
Be My Baby: Parents & Children Talk About Adoption
Gail Kinn

Artisan, 2000

The Most Beautiful Book on Adoption

+ Documents the diversity of adoptive families
+ Provides a warm presentation for the entire family
+ A beautiful new look at adoption
  
  











  



  
Adoption Stories for Young Children
Randall B. Hicks

Wordslinger Press, 1995

Reality for little kids

+ Good for adoptees and their friends
+ Adoption Stories for Young Children

This book was a birthday gift for our small naturally born daughter on the eve of our adoption of an older child from a foreign land. Unlike most other readily available adoption titles for little kids (with the exception of Let's Talk About Adoption), this book shows real photos of real babies, ...
  
  











  



  
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
Wendy Mogel

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001

What works with kids and for parents

+ Best Parenting Book
+ The Blessings of a Great Book
+ Blessings of a Skinned Knee
+ Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Children
  
  











  



  
Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
Micky Duxbury

Routledge, 2006

An adoptive parent's perspective

+ Moving, Truthful, and Enlightening

This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in open adoption. Duxbury integrates first-person stories with information on the basic philosophy and history of openness. The stories are authentic and honest, and do not shy away from acknowledging challenges and mistakes. Especially ...
  
  











  



  
We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families
Todd Parr

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007

what is a family?

+ Great for kids
+ We love this book

We belong together. This book tell the story of all types of families with many different colors and sizes. I bought this book for a friend who adopted a little girl and she is a single mom, It shows that many different types of people which makes a family, you've got the single mom,the single ...
  
  











  



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

HarperTrophy, 2000

Spot-On Positive Vibes for Adopted Kids and their Parents

+ WAS THAT YOU IN PALM SPRINGS?
+ One of the Best Books on Adoption
+ WONDERFUL!
+ Wonderful book for both new adoptive parents and adoptees
  
  











  



  
Adoption Is for Always (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book)
Linda Walvoord Girard

Albert Whitman & Company, 1991

My kid likes it

+ Real Parents are the ones REALLY there! A+!
+ Good when you adopt from birth
+ A great book for fostering love for the birthmother
  
  











  



  
Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
Lois Ruskai Melina

Collins Living, 1998

A MUST READ

+ Practical Advice
+ The more things change

As an adoption specialist for 20 years, I always recommend reading this book before, during and after adoption. Not everything applies to everyone, but on a whole, it gives the best and most accurate information about the adoption process. Just like any "manual" on how to do something, there are ...
  
  











  



  
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Sherrie Eldridge

Delta, 1999

See What the Kids Think

+ A good book, but I wish it was even better

Before, during, or after you adopt read this book! It could prepare, protect, or propell your relationship with your adopted child. In my work as a speaker on family issues, I have adoptive parents ask for resources. This is one book I can highly recommend. The Birth to Five Book: Confident ...
  
  











  



  
Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
Micky Duxbury

Routledge, 2006

An adoptive parent's perspective

+ Moving, Truthful, and Enlightening

This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in open adoption. Duxbury integrates first-person stories with information on the basic philosophy and history of openness. The stories are authentic and honest, and do not shy away from acknowledging challenges and mistakes. Especially ...
  
  











  



  
Be My Baby: Parents & Children Talk About Adoption
Gail Kinn

Artisan, 2000

The Most Beautiful Book on Adoption

+ Documents the diversity of adoptive families
+ Provides a warm presentation for the entire family
+ A beautiful new look at adoption
  
  











  



  
Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Michael Thompson, Cathe O'Neill-Grace, ...

Ballantine Books, 2002

This book is important.

+ Worst Enemies/ Best Friends Beacon Street Girls
+ Children's social lives
+ AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  
  











  



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

HarperTrophy, 2000

Spot-On Positive Vibes for Adopted Kids and their Parents

+ WAS THAT YOU IN PALM SPRINGS?
+ One of the Best Books on Adoption
+ WONDERFUL!
+ Wonderful book for both new adoptive parents and adoptees
  
  











  



  
Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
Lois Ruskai Melina

Collins Living, 1998

A MUST READ

+ Practical Advice
+ The more things change

As an adoption specialist for 20 years, I always recommend reading this book before, during and after adoption. Not everything applies to everyone, but on a whole, it gives the best and most accurate information about the adoption process. Just like any "manual" on how to do something, there are ...
  
  











  



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