Websites with Good Adoption Related Books


  • Tappestry Books publishes a catalog of adoption related books. (800)765-2367.
  • Thrift Books has a collection of multicultural and adoption books. (608)833-5238.
  • Pact Press< has some wonderful resources, both online and available for purchase.

Books for Children

  • Why Am I Different?
  • It's Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr
  • A Spark in the Dark
  • I Don't Have Your Eyes
  • Our Twitchy
  • A Mother for Choco
  • All the Colors of the Earth
  • We're Different, We're the Same
  • Families Are Different
  • Beginnings
  • I'm Brown and My Sister Isn't
  • Anthony's Surprise
  • Is That Your Sister
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Books on Attachment

  • Becoming a Family by Lark Eshleman
  • When Love Is Not Enough by Nancy Thomas
  • Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel Hughes
  • Can This Child Be Saved? by Foster Cline & Jim Fay
  • Attaching in Adoption by Deborah Gray
  • Toddler Adoption - The Weaver's Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
  • Adopting the Hurt Child by Gregory Keck & Regina Kupecky
  • When Love Is Not Enough by Nancy Thomas
  • Happiest Baby Book by Karvey Karp, MD.
  • Happiest Toddler Book by Karvey Karp, MD.
  • Healing Trust (CD Set) by Nancy Thomas
  • Taming the Tiger When It's Still a Kitten by Nancy Thomas

Books on Grief and Loss

  • The Post-Adoption Blues by Karen Foli & John Thompson
  • 25 Things to Do When Grandpa Passes Away, Mom & Dad Get Divorced, or the Dog Dies by Laurie Kanyer
  • A Boy and A Turtle: Visualization, Meditation and Relaxation Bedtime Story for Children by Lori Lite
  • Healing the Hurt, Restoring the Hope by Suzy Yehl Marta
  • Making It Better: Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World by Barbara Oehlberg
  • The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
  • Beyond Good Intentions by Cheri Register
  • The Family of Adoption by Joyce Maguire Pavao
  • Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt
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Books for Parents About Transracial Adoption

  • Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall
  • In Their Own Voices by Rita James Simon & Rhonda Roorda
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverley Tatum
  • Black Baby White Hands
  • Loving Across the Color Line by Sharon Rush
  • Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits by Myra Alpherson
  • Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? by Donna Nakazawa
  • I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World by Marguerite Wright.

Other Articles About Transracial Adoption

  • My Experience as a Transethnic Adoptee by Michelle K. Johnson
  • White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh from Peace and Freedom - July/August 1989
  • White people need to acknowledge benefits of unearned privilege by Robert Jensen in the Baltimore Sun
  • Seven Common Transracial Parenting Mistakes by Willie B. Garrett (from Adoptive Parents Magazine, May/June 1999
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