Best Adoption Books

Selected by the editors of Adoptive Families magazine. Browse our full list of adoption book reviews here: http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/books.php

Getting started in adoption

• Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston
  
• Adopting in Russia: Your Rights and the Law by Irina O’Rear
  
• Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America by Adam Pertman
  
• Adopting on Your Own, The Complete Guide to Adopting as a Single by Lee Varon
  
• The Adoption Option Complete Handbook by Chris Adamec
  
• Are Those Kids Yours? American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries by Cheri Register
  
• Report on Intercountry Adoption by AnnaMarie Merrill
  
• The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans
  
• The Adoption Resource Book, Fourth Edition by Lois Gilman
  
• Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew
  
• Somebody’s Child: Stories from the Private Files of an Adoption Attorney by Randi Barrow
  
• Reaching Out: The Guide to Writing a Terrific Dear Birthmother Letter by Nelson Handel
  
• With Eyes Wide Open: A Workbook for Parents Adopting International Children Over Age One by Margi Miller and Nancy Ward
  
• The Russian Word for Snow: A True Story of Adoption by Janis Cooke Newman

Adoptive parenting

• Adoption and the Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers by Lansing Wood and Nancy Ng
  
• Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah Gray
  
• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by David Brodzinsky, Marshall Schechter, and Robin Marantz Henig
  
• Breastfeeding the Adopted Baby by Debra Stewart Peterson
  
• Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families by Myra Alperson
  
• An Educator’s Guide to Adoption published by the Institute of Adoption Information
  
• Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
  
• Ithaka by Sarah Saffian
  
• The Open Adoption Experience by Lois Ruskai Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia
  
• Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D., and Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W.
  
• A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China edited by Amy Klatzkin
  
• Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina
  
• Real Parents, Real Children by Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
  
• Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff
  
• Talking with Young Children About Adoption by Mary Watkins, Ph.D., and Susan Fisher, M.D.
  
• Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child, Making Sense of the Past by Jayne Schooler
  
• Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
  
• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

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