Recommended Reading List

• Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents – Deborah D. Gray

 

• Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma – Deborah D. Gray

 

• Forever Mom: What to Expect When You’re Adopting – Mary Ostyn

 

• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

 

• Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections – Jean MacLeod and Sheena Macrae

 

• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew – Sherrie Eldridge

 

• Before You Were Mine: Discovering Your Adopted Child’s Lifestory – Susan TeBos, Carissa Woodwyk, and Sherrie Eldridge

 

• Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate Relationships When New Kids Join the Family – Arleta James

 

• Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft – Mary Hopkins-Best

 

• What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween – Judy M. Miller

 

• I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World – Marguerite Wright

 

• In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends. (Mom’s Choice Award Winner) – Elisabeth O’Toole

 

• So I Was Thinking About Adoption…: Considering Your Choices – Mardie Caldwell, COAP

 

• Called to Adoption: A Christian’s Guide to Answering the Call – Mardie Caldwell, COAP with Heather Featherston

 

• You Can Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption – Julie Gumm

 

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts – Gary D. Chapman

 

• The Post Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption – Karen J. Foli

 

• Adoptive Families Magazine