Monday, November 8, 2010

Picture Books about Adoption

Last year we posted a list of picture books about adoption. This time the books are categorized to help you find the book that best fits your child's adoption needs and stage, plus additional titles. Do you want a book to help share  your child's birth and adoption journey? Do you want a book to help discuss your child's birthparents? Do you want a book to help understanding about what being an adoptive family means? Do you need a book to discuss adopting a child into your family to either biological or adoptive children? Check out these books!


Adoption Stories
Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born by Jaime Lee Curtis
How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole
Over the Moon by Karen Katz
My Family is Forever by Nancy Carlson
The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis



Books discussing Birthparents
Forever Fingerprints by Sherrie Eldridge
The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story by Anne Braff Brodzinsky
Did My First Mother Love Me?: A Story for an Adopted Child by Kathryn Ann Miller
Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings
Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story by Carol Antoinette Peacock
Sam's Sister by Juliet C. Bond










Books about Adoptive Families
All Together Now by Anita Jeram
A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
Horace by Holly Keller
Every Year on Your Birthday by Rose A. Lewis
Happy Adoption Day! by John McCutcheon
We Belong Together by Todd Parr
I Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze


Books about Adopting a Younger Sibling
Ten Days and Nine Nights by Yumi Heo
My Mei Mei by Ed Young
Rebecca’s Journey Home by Brynn Olenberg Sugarman
Waiting for May by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Bringing Asha Home by Uma Krishnaswami

Most of these titles are available at local public libraries. This is just a starter list of picture books about adoption. There are many more titles available.

1 comment:

ShawnKimAdopting said...

Thank you for the wonderful list! I'm looking forward to reading and evaluating some of these books for our library!