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 Schechter

Negotiating 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