Recommended Reading
| For Children | Attachment| Grief and Loss| Transracial Parenting
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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