Recommended Readings
For Children:
Little Miss Spider, David Kirk
Billy's New Home: For Foster Children Everywhere, Valerie Busic, Illustrated by Jeff Meyers
Beginnings: How Families Come to Be, Virginia Kroll
Lucy’s Feet, Stephanie Stein
The Mulberry Bird: The Story of an Adoption, Ann B. Brodzinsky
Teenagers Talk about Adoption, Marion Crook
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, Jamie L. Curtis
On the Day You Were Born, Debra Frazier
Where the Sun Kisses the Sea, Susan L. Gabel
Adoption is for Always, Linda W. Girard
We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo, Linda W. Girard
The Day We Met You, Phoebe Koehler
How It Feels to be Adopted, Jill Krementz
Happy Adoption Day!, John McCutcheon
Mario’s Big Question: A Child’s Guide to Adoption, Carolyn Nystrom
William is My Brother, Jane Schnitter
Through Moon & Stars and Night Skies, Ann Turner
For Professionals and Parents:
The Psychology of Adoption, Edited by David Brodzinsky and Marshall SchechterNegotiating Adoption Assistance in Ohio, Timothy P. O'Hanlon, Ph.D.
Adopting the Hurt Child, Greg Keck and Regina Kupecky
Adopting the Older Child, Claudia Jewett
The Adoption Life Cycle, Elinor B. Rosenberg
Strong at the Broken Places, Linda T. Sanford
How it Feels to be Adopted, Jill Krementz
Parenting with Love & Logic, Foster Cline and Jim Fay
The Healing Power of the Family, Richard J. Delaney
In their Own Voices, Simon and Roorda
The Whole Life Adoption, Jayne Schooler
Troubled Transplants, Richard J. Delaney
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss, Claudia L. Jewett
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, David Brodzinsky et.al.
Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments and Everyday Heroics of Foster and Adoptive Parents, Richard Delaney
The Broken Cord, Michael Dorris
Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships, H. David Kirk
Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption, Victor Groza and Karen F. Rosenberg
Perspectives on a Grafted Tree, Patricia Irwin Johnson
Parenting the Hurt Child, Greg Keck and Regina Kupecky
Making Sense of Adoption, Lois Ruskai Melina
Raising Adopted Children, Lois Ruskai Melina
Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America, Adam Pertman
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child, Betsy Keefer and Jayne E. Schooler
Real Parents, Real Children, Holly Van Gluden and Lisa M. Bartels – Rabb
Holding Time, Martha Welch
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, Deborah D. Gray
