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Recommended Adoption Book List

Books for Adults

Domestic Adoption

In on It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You to Know

About Adoption by Elisabeth O’Toole

Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties

Through Open Adoption by Micky Duxbury

Adoption Nation by Adam Pertman

Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber

The Spirit of Open Adoption by James L. Gritter

The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for

Adoptive and Birth Families by Lois Ruskai Melina

The Open Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your

Child Grow Up Whole by Lori Holden

Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff

You’re Our Child: The Adoption Experience by

Franklin I. Miroff

Talking to Your Child About Adoption by Patricia

Martinez Dorner

Talking to Young Children About Adoption by Mary

Watkins

Attaching in Adoption by Deborah D. Gray

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew

by Sherrie Eldridge

Single Parent Families

Adopting on Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adopting

as a Single Parent by Lee Varon

So You Want to Adopt...Now What? A Practical Guide for

Navigating the Adoption Process by Sara Dormon

The Single Parent Resource: An A to Z Guide for the

Challenges of Single Parenting by Brooke Noel

Single By Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are

Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the

New American Family by Rosanna Hertz

Multi-Cultural/Multi-Racial Families

Growing up Black in White by Kevin D. Hoffman

Brown Babies, Pink Parents by Amy Ford

In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their

Own Stories by Rita J. Simon

Outsiders Within: Writings on Transracial Adoption by

Trenka, Oparah & Shin

I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Black and

Biracial Children in a Race Conscience World by

Marguerite Wright

Come Rain or Come Shine: A White Parent’s Guide to

Adopting and Parenting Black Children by Rachel

Garlinghouse

Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to

Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson

Nakazawa

Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg

Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by

Barbara Katz Rothman

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the

Cafeteria and Other Conversations About Race by

Beverly Daniel Tatum

LGBT Families

Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension

in Family Diversity by Oxford University Press, USA

Gay Dads: A Celebration of Fatherhood by David

Strah

The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide

by Arlene Istar Lev

Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordi-

nary Yet Ordinary by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Books for Children

Multi-Cultural/Multi-Racial Families

Brown Like Me by Noelle Lamperti

Red in the Flower Bed: An Illustrated Children’s

Story About Interracial Adoption by Andrea Nepa

Is That Your Sister? A True Story of Adoption by

Catherine Bunin

The Family Book by Todd Parr

You’re Not My Real Mother by Molly Friedrich

Horace by Holly Keller

We’re Different, We’re the Same: And We’re All

Wonderful (Sesame Street) by Bobbi Kates

Why Am I Different? by Norma Simon

The Color of Us by Karen Katz

LGBT Families

Mommy, Mama and Me by Leslea Newman

Daddy, Papa and Me by Leslea Newman

Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

Who’s in a Family by Robert Skutch

Molly’s Family by Nancy Garden

King, King and Family by Lind De Haan

In Our Mother’s House by Patricia Polacco

Some People Have Two Dads by Luca Panzini

A Tale of Two Daddies by Vanita Oelschlager

Adopting Ahava by Jennifer Byrne

Single Parent Families

The Best Single Mom in the World: How I Was

Adopted by Mary Zisk

The Red Blanket by Eliza Thomas

Love is a Family by Roma Downey

Domestic Adoption

The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky

How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole

My Family is Forever by Nancy Carlson

I’m Adopted! by Shelley Rotner

We Belong Together by Todd Parr

I Wished For You—An Adoption Story by Marianne

Richmond

Adoption is For Always by Linda Walvoord Girard

Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon &

Julie Paschkis

A Blessing From Above by Patti Henderson

Rosie’s Family: An Adoption Story by Lori Rosove

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by

Jamie Lee Curtis

My New Family: A First Look at Adoption by

Pat Thomas

The Day We Met You by Phoebe Koehler

A Mother For Choco by Keiko Kasza

Motherbridge of Love by Josee Masse

All About Adoption: How Families Are Made by

Marc A. Nemiroff

Let’s Talk About It: Adoption by Fred Rogers

Little Miss Spider by David Kirk

All Kinds of Families by Norma Simon

Who are My Real Parents? by D. L. Fuller

My Adopted Child, There’s No One Like You

by Dr. Kevin Leman

The Family Book by Todd Parr

Books About Birthparents

Did My First Mother Love Me? by Kathryn Ann

Miller

Megan’s Birthday Tree: A Story About Open

Adoption by Laurie Lears