Adoption Education

  • Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption by Julie Gumm
  • Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah D. Gray
  • Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love by Robert Karen
  • Building the Bonds of Attachment – Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children by Daniel Hughes
  • Dear Birthmother: Thank you for Our Baby by Kathleen Silber
  • Helping Your Adopted Child: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Identity by Paul David Tripp
  • Getting Ready for Adoption by Theresa L. McCoy
  • In Their Own Voices by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda
  • Parenting the Hurt Child by Dr. Gregory Keck, Regina M. Kupecky, and L.G. Mansfield
  • Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years by Patty Cogen
  • Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina
  • Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child by Betsy Keefer and Jayne Schooler
  • The Adoption Resource Book, 4th edition by Lois Gilma
  • The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis, David Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
  • The Primal Wound-Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier
  • The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family by Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas C. Atwood
  • Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
  • Treasury of Adoption Miracles by Karen Kingsberry
  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
  • When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD by Nancy L. Thomas

 

Parenting

  • Parenting the Hurt Child by Keck and Kupecky
  • Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
  • Raising Resilient Children by Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
  • Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
  • The Connected Child by Purvis, Cross and Sunshine

Transracial Adoptions

  • Are Those Kids Yours? American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries by Cheri Register
  • Cross-Cultural Adoption How to Answer Questions from Family, Friends, and Community by Amy Coughlin and Caryn Abramowitz
  • I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla by Marguerite Wright
  • Kinki Kreations: A Parent’s Guide to Natural Black Hair Care for Kids by Jena Renee Williams
  • Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg
  • 10 Steps to Successful International Adoption: A Guided Workbook for Prospective Parents by Brenda K. Uekert
  • Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Life Books

  • My Family, My Journey: A Baby Book for Adoptive Families by Zoe Francesca and Susie Ghahremani
  • LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child by Beth O’Malley

Children's Books (for adopted kids and siblings)

  • A Blessing from Above by Patti Henderson
  • Adopted and Loved Forever by Annetta Dellinger
  • Adoption is for Always by Linda Girard
  • A Life Like Mine by UNICEF and Jemima Khan
  • Always Copycub by Richard Edwards and Susan Winters
  • A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
  • Every Child Everywhere! by Debby Anderson
  • Finding Joy by Marion Coste and Yong Chen
  • Forever Fingerprints by Sherrie Eldridge
  • God Gave Us You by Lisa Bergen
  • God Knows My Name by Debby Anderson
  • Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon
  • Heaven is Having You by Giles Andrea
  • How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole
  • If I Were a Moose by Patrick Kleinen and Jeannie Winston
  • I Love You Through and Through by Rossetti-Shustak
  • I Wished for You: An Adoption Story by Marianne Richmond
  • Mama, Do you Love Me? by Barbara Joosse and Barbara Lavallee
  • My Adopted Child, There’s No One Like You by Kevin Leman
  • Never, Never, Never Will She Stop Loving You by Jolene Durrant
  • No Matter What by Debi Gliori
  • On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
  • Rosie’s Family An Adoption Story by Lori Rosove
  • Shades of Black by Sandra Pinkney
  • Shaoey and Dot: Bug Meets Bundle by Mary Beth Chapman and Steven Curtis Chapman