Resources

There are a ton of resources available for adopting families. Below are a list of books for parents and children. If you have other books that are great for adoption, please send an email and we’ll add it to the list!
(click on picture to go directly to website with listed adoption books)




Books for Adults:


CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE FOR A GREAT LISTING OF ADOPTION BOOKS:

**www.canadaadopts.com/canada/resources_books.shtml

“This is a great website with many reference books for adopting. Book listed help with adoption issues, how to prepare for adoption, how to prepare young children for adoption, etc…Honestly, every book imaginable (for both parents and children) is on this site!!! It’s fantastic!”

ANOTHER GREAT WEBSITE FOR LISTS OF ADOPTION BOOKS:


http://www.squidoo.com/Adoption-Books

BOOKS recommended by adoptive parents...

-The Connected Child - Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dr. David Cross and Wendy Lyons Sunshine

-Parenting Your Adopted Older Child - Brenda McCreight

-Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child - Patricia Cogen

-Post Adoption Blues – Karen J. Foli

-Toddler Adoption: Weaver's Craft – Mary Hopkins Best

“These books offered a very objective view into adoption to prepare parents that it might not all be "rosy" and offered suggestions on how to get through the struggles in a positive way for both parents and children. I would definitely recommend them to anyone thinking about any type of adoption”


Books for International Adoption

-From Ashes to Africa - John and Amy Bottomly (click on picture of book to read more about it!)

-There is No Me without You - Melissa Fay Greene (features Ethiopia)

-The Lost Daughters of China - Karin Evans

-In Their Own Voices. Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories - Rita J Simons

“I seriously cannot say enough good things about this book. It's the only book that I've found that has a collaboration of stories straight from the adult adoptees’ mouths. They tell about the good things that their families did for them and how it benefited them and they also tell of things that they wish their families had done differently.”

-It’s All Good Hair – Michele Collison

The guide to styling and grooming black children’s hair

-Kinki Kreations – Jena Renee Williams
A parent’s guide to natural black hair for kids


Books for Children:

-Motherbride of Love - a beautiful,
touching poem - a beautiful book about adoption

-I Love You Like Crazy Cakes - Rose A. Lewis (China)

-The Red Blanket - Eliza Thomas (China)

-I Don’t Have Your Eyes - Carrie A. Kitze (all adoption)

-A Mother for Choco - Keiko Kasza (all adoption)

-Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An adoption Story - Carol Antoinette Peacock

Websites for African Hair Care and Products:

Sharuba Hair Care

Adoption DVDs

-Adopted – you can watch the trailer and/or purchase the movie online at http://www.pointmadeonlinestore.com/

-Colourful Lives: Voices of Transracial Adoptees

This documentary hears local adoptees as they give voice to the challenges of growing up transracially and transculturally adopted.

.-Connected Lives: Stories of Open Adoption

Adoptive parents and adoptees talk about open adoption and how it has shaped their journey.