 | Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 Overall a very helpful book - we reference this at least once or twice a year even now.
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 | Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.45 Excellent for toddlers, we used this as both an introduction of adoption and also a way of discussing how our story differed from the books'.
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 | We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families by Todd Parr
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.99 The colors are great for a preschooler, and this book covers all kinds of adoptive families.
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 | Adoption Stories for Young Children by Randall B. Hicks
Buy used from: $4.64 This is great for the kindergartener or school age child.
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 | Adoption Is for Always (Albert Whitman Concept Paperbacks) by Linda Walvoord Girard
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 Also a great story for the kindergartener and school age child.
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 | Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.40 Another book we refer to again and again especially as our child grows older.
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 | Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.54 This is just a great all around parenting book for understanding how kids relate to each other and to adults.
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 | The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Another great all-around book, most definitely not about rasing a child in the Jewish faith, applicable to all faiths (or no faith).
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 | Be My Baby: Parents & Children Talk About Adoption by Gail Kinn
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $0.01 Great book about adoptive families.
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 | Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption by Micky Duxbury
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.44 Excellent for learning and relating to the ongoing open adoption relationship.
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