 | Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years by Laura Davis
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $4.60 This is more of a general parenting book. I wish I could be the parent that this book encourages you to be! I strive to be that parent, but too often fall short. It's a wonderful book about parenting your child in a way that is so respectful of him or her.
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 | Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.93 What a God send this book is! I cannot say enough good things about it.
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 | Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.97 A must-read for adoptive parents, in my view.
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 | Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 This book delivers what it promises -- reassuring, practical advice. I turn to it nearly weekly.
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 | Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.38 One of the first books about adoption that I bought. I am so grateful for Jana Wolff's honesty.
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 | A Mother for Choco (Paperstar) by Keiko Kasza
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.32 A wonderful book to help start explaining transracial adoption to small children.
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 | Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale by Karen Katz
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.77 The illustrations are beautiful. The story is lovely. It is about the adoption by a couple of a baby from Latin America. My only quibble with the book is that the baby just appears out of nowhere, on a mountain, like magic. There are foster parents for the baby but somehow no first parents.
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 | The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism by Pat Thomas
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.13 I think that this is a great book to read with your school-age child about racism and racist bullying.
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 | The Family Book by Todd Parr
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $7.35 This book has been so helpful to me in explaining to my son why there's no daddy in our house. It's all about how there are many different kinds of families, but what all families have in common with one another is that they love each other.
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 | My Family is Forever by Nancy Carlson
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.65 This is a lovely book that explains in simple terms what adoption is. My 2-year-old asks to read it over and over.
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 | It's Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.78 This is another great book by Todd Parr about accepting differences.
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 | Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children by Sherrie Eldridge
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.81 I just purchased this for my son and can't wait to receive it! I read it on line on the website for EMK press and thought it was lovely and would help my son explore his feelings about his first family and his connection to them.
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 | Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book) by Mem Fox
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.53 Another book that I just purchased and can't wait to receive!
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 | Abuela's Weave by Omar S. Castaneda
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.92 This is a beautifully illustrated story about a young girl and her grandmother who live in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. They make beautiful weavings that they sell in Guatemala City.
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 | Guatemala ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Guatemala (Country Abcs) by Aboff
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.98 A great book for children about Guatemala.
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 | Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.98 The best book I know of about toddler adoption.
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 | Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents by Deborah D. Gray
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.50 A must-have if your child has attachment issues.
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 | I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.44 A wonderful book about a girl of color who revels in herself, who likes herself just the way she is.
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 | Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.70 In English and Spanish -- beautiful, lyrical book about a Latino family.
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 | Perro grande... Perro pequeño / Big Dog... Little Dog (Spanish and English Edition) by P.D. Eastman
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.80 My son loves this book in English and Spanish! It's typical Dr. Suess-like stuff.
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 | We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families by Todd Parr
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.64 Another book I've just purchased and can't wait to receive!
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 | We See the Moon by Carrie A. Kitze
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $8.01 Such a poetic book! Very evocative and bittersweet. I hope to use it with my son when he is older to help him express his feelings about his first family.
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