Recommended Reading

Going through the adoption process can be very exciting while still being very scary.  Below is a list of some great adoption books that may help ease your nerves. Also, check out the children's books at the end that may help explain adoption to your child when the time is right.

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Adult Books:

Dear Birthmother: Thank you for Our Baby (Kathleen Silber and Phyllis Speedlin)

I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World (Marguerite Wright)

The Adoption Triangle (Arthur Sorosky)

Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child (Holly Van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb)

The Complete Adoption Book (Laura Beauvais-Godwin)

Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America (Adam Pertman)

Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (Merry Jones)

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

Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption (Filis Casey and Marisa Catalina Casey)

When Adoptions Go Wrong: Psychological And Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption (Lita Schwartz)

Children's Books:

Beginnings: How Families Come to Be (Virginia Kroll)

Did My First Mother Love Me? (Kathryn Ann Miller)

Pugnose Has Two Special Families (Karis Kruzel)

Enjoy!