Adopted: the Ultimate Teen Guide. Suzanne Buckingham Slade, $55.50

Adopted: the Ultimate Teen Guide enables young adults to explore their feelings as they read about the personal feelings of others. Full of stories, pictures, artwork – this up-to-date resource will help adopted teens move on to stable and happy lives as adults.

Adopted and Wondering: Drawing Out Feelings. Marge Heegaard, $9.95

Adoption is a life-altering event—a change that can create loss and grief as well as joy. If the feelings created by change are not addressed, children can develop problems with identity, trust, control, self-esteem, and intimacy. This book uses the art process to help children understand and express their feelings about being adopted.

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids. Gregory Keck & Regina Kupecky, $20.50

Written in a nontechnical style, Adopting the Hurt Child brings to light grim truths but also real hope that children who have been hurt can be healed by adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and others whose lives interact with theirs.

Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families. Patricia Irwin Johnston, $29.95

If you’ve been struggling with infertility issues, are a single person or a partner in a same-sex family, chances are adoption has come up in your thinking about a means of building your family. Perhaps you’ve thought a little, perhaps a lot. Adopting: Sound Choices Strong Families offers expert guidance, insight and key understanding about adoption as a genuine, practical means for growing a family–perhaps even yours.

Written to help prospective adoptive parents like you make smater, more thoughtful decisions about adopting a child, this guide will challenge you and move you step-by-step through the process of adoption through the lens of the deeply personal and emotional obstacles everyone feels during this decision-making process.

Adoption Piece by Piece Trilogy. Sara Graefe, editor, $28.95 each

Lifelong Issues
A Toolkit for Parents
Special Needs

"This trilogy is for newly adoptive parents and professionals alike. The books cover everything from adopting a child who has Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) to receiving the help your child needs from his or her family doctor or teacher. This series represents a comprehensive collection of articles from experienced parents and professionals on a variety of topics related to adoption. A must for any adoptive parent or professional who deals with the complex issues around adoption."

Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society. Katarina Wegar, $27.95

Bringing new perspectives to the topics of kinship, identity and belonging, Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society expands on our understanding of adoptive family life and urges us to rethink the limits and possibilities of diversity and assimilation in North American society.

Adoptive Families are Families for Keeps: Activity Book. Lissa Cowan, Illustrations by Stephanie Hill. $24.95

As a critical education tool, this activity book will provide social workers, foster parents, caregivers and educators with dynamic and instructive ways to introduce and discuss a wide range of adoption issues with young children. After living with three foster families, Tara is ready to be adopted. Children will follow Tara on her journey from foster care to adoption through a series of activities and a touching story.

Adoptive and Foster Parent Screening: a Professional Guide for Evaluations. James Dickerson & Mardi Allen, $42.50

Adoptive and Foster Parent Screening meshes the best of psychology and social work experience into a definitive guide for screening adoption and foster home applicants.

"Are Those Kids Yours?" American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries, Cheri Register, $28.95

The question "are those kids yours?" has a familiar ring to parents who have adopted children from South Korea, India, Colombia, the Philippines, and other countries. As natural and normal as it feels to them to be together, such families are often asked to explain their obvious difference.
 
The book addresses many central issues about international adoption: why children are in need of adoption outside the country of their birth, why parents choose to adopt from other countries...how parents explain the cultural circumstances of their childrens' births and how the children perceive this, how families foster ethnic identity, how they deal with racism, and how living as a multicultural family affects their view of the world."

Attachment-Focused Family Therapy. Daniel A. Hughes, $40.00

Daniel Hughes, an eminent clinician and attachment specialist, draws on more than 20 years of clinical experience to present this comprehensive, effective, and accessible treatment model for working with all members of a family to recognize, resolve, and heal personal and family problems using principles from theories of attachment and intersubjectivity. Grounded in the fundamental principle of parents facilitating the healthy emotional development of their children, Attachment-Focused Family Therapy is the first book of its kind to offer therapists a complete manual for using attachment therapy with families.

Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children. Daniel Hughes, $40.00

An expert clinician brings attachment theory into the realm of parenting skills. Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but rarely are they effectively applied to basic parenting skills. Here, a leading attachment specialist brings attachment work inside the therapy room to the outside, equipping caregivers with practical parenting techniques rooted in attachment theory and research.

Attachment in the Young Child. Kinship Center, $74.50 DVD format

This video presents ways to increase attachment between a new caregiver and a child who has experienced early childhood neglect, separation or loss. Expert presenters describe the effects of separation and outline specific techniques for attachment-based parenting.

Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas. Karen Dubinsky, $21.95

Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration controversies in North America, Cuba, and Guatemala.

Drawing from extensive research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Karen Dubinsky aims to move adoption debates beyond the current dichotomy of 'imperialist kidnap' versus 'humanitarian rescue.' Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

The Bean Seed. Judith Bush & Robert Spottswood, $14.95 (ages 4-8)

A picture book for children in foster care or adoptive families, The Bean Seed tells the story of a little bean who is lonely, mistrustful and neglected. With the loving care of a gardener who takes the time to nurture him, the bean starts to grow and thrive and set down roots while reaching for the sun.

Because I Loved You: a Birthmother’s View of Open Adoption. Patricia Dischler, $22.50

More than a memoir, this honest and moving narrative will speak to birthparents, adoptive parents and their children.

Being Adopted: the Lifelong Search for Self. David Brodzinsky, Marshall Swchecter & Robin Marantz Henig, $19.95

How does it feel to be adopted? Do you feel differently about it when you're forty years old than you do when you're thirteen? As recently as a generation ago, being adopted seemed no different from being born into the family that raised you. Now, however, studies show that being adopted can affect many aspects of adoptees' lives, from relationships with adoptive parents to bonds with their own children.

Being Adopted uses the voices of adoptees themselves to trace how adoption is experienced over a lifetime, and their reflections are moving, keenly self-aware, and very personal. Replete with vital and astute analysis by the authors-who have a joint total of more than fifty-five years' experience in clinical and research work with adoptees and their families-this book offers a place to turn for thousands of adoptees who, at one time or another, have questioned the validity of their feelings but have had no one to compare their experiences with.

Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control: a Love-Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors. Heather Forbes & B. Bryan Post, $24.95

Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control takes a fresh approach to some of the most challenging issues faced by parents of children with histories of trauma and attachment disorders.

“The immense value of this book is the clarity and simplicity of the authors' working model. The psychotherapeutic intervention described by the authors involves clinicians tapping into their own empathic capacities to help children feel supported to such a degree that direct connections can be forged between the reality of children's traumatic experiences and the parents and/or clinicians being able to tolerate their pain and so regulate the child's distress down to a manageable level. The recognition that another person can truly understand and tolerate their pain can be a major contribution to the client's therapeutic outcome.”

- From the introduction by Sir Richard Bowlby

This book is a practical, accessible and compassionate guide for parents and professionals who want to provide true emotional safety for traumatized children.

Beyond Good Intentions: a Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children. Cheri Register, $24.95

In these boldly written essays, Cheri Register, the mother of two adult daughters adopted as infants from Korea, questions the conventional wisdom about raising internationally adopted children, calling attention to ten choices well-meaning parents make that turn out not to serve their children's needs as well as one might expect. She calls for a frank and intimate conversation about the distinct challenges of raising children adopted across national, cultural, and, often, racial boundaries. By avoiding pat answers that fall short of families' real needs she affirms the hard work and loving devotion that parenthood demands.

Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption. Filis Casey & Marisa Catalina Casey, $16.50

This is an inspiring collection of true stories, written from many perspectives, of adoption. Birth parents, adoptive parents and adult adopted children all write about the challenges and rewards of this most remarkable journey.

Bringing Asha Home. Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Jamel Akib, $21.95

It's Rakhi, the Hindu holiday special to brothers and sisters, and Arun wishes he had a sister with whom to celebrate. Soon it looks as if his wish will come true. His parents are going to adopt a baby girl named Asha. She is coming all the way from India, where Arun's dad was born. The family prepares for Asha's arrival, not knowing it will be almost a year until they receive governmental approval to bring Asha home. Arun is impatient and struggles to accept the long delay, but as time passes he finds his own special ways to build a bond with his sister, who is still halfway around the world.

Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate Relationships When New Kids Join the Family. Arleta James, $34.95

From years of working with families who have adopted domestically and internationally, Arleta James has developed practical tools for assisting placement professionals in preparing and supporting the families of adoption. This book is designed to assist professionals in helping parents, already-resident children and the older-adopted children who join them in accepting one-another’s unfamiliar behavior and culture and merging them.

Building the Bonds of Attachment: a DVD Presentation with Daniel Hughes. $75.00

Produced from a recent workshop given by Dan Hughes on his Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy model, this DVD is for parents and professionals who live and work with adopted, foster or biological children who have trauma-attachment disorders. 185 minutes.

Also available: Building the Bonds of Attachment: an Audio CD Presentation. Daniel Hughes, $20.00

The Complete Adoption Book: Everything You Need to Know to Adopt a Child, 3rd edition. Laura Beauvais-Godwin & Raymond Godwin, $20.95

Whether you choose to pursue independent, agency, or international adoption, The Complete Adoption Book is the most comprehensive and authoritative adoption book you can use to guide you through the process … As adoption professionals and adoptive parents, authors Laura Beauvais-Godwin and Raymond Godwin bring expertise and compassion to every situation an adopting parent is likely to encounter.

From the initial decision, through returning home with your child, author Dawn Davenport takes parents step by step through the entire process of adopting a child from another country. The Complete Book of International Adoption is a valuable guide to helping parents manage the emotional rollercoaster as well as the practical aspects that come with the international adoption decision and process. Sensitive, wise, and witty, this book is a must-have for any parent considering building their family through adoption.

The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family. Karyn Purvis, David Cross & Wendy Lyons Sunshine, $20.95

Some adoptions present unique challenges. Welcoming children from troubled backgrounds or children with special behavioral or emotional needs requires a great deal of care and compassion. The Connected Child shows parents how to build trust and affection and how to effectively deal with learning and behavioral disorders, while honoring the child’s need for security and safety.

Connecting with Kids through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children. Denise Lacher, Todd Nichols & Joanne May, $24.95

Children whose early development has been damaged by abuse or neglect are notoriously difficult to reach … Connecting with Kids through Stories is an accessible guide to Family Attachment Narrative Therapy for the parents of adopted or fostered children, and for the professionals who work with them. Providing a thorough theoretical grounding, and detailed information on therapeutic techniques and how to assess progress, the book shows parents how to create their own therapeutic stories to promote increased attachment and improved behavior in their child. The authors describe how different kinds of narratives can help with specific difficulties and illustrate their techniques with the story of a fictional family who develop their own narratives to help their adopted child heal.

Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption and the Negotiation of Family Difference. Heather Jacobson, $29.95

Sociologist Heather Jacobson examines a relatively new social phenomenon - the practice by international adoptive parents, mothers in particular, of incorporating aspects of their children’s cultures of origin into their families’ lives.  What implications does this “culture keeping” have, as parents work to construct ethnic identities for their children?

The Day We Met You. Phoebe Koehler, $6.99

"The sun shone bright the day we met you." So begins a mother and father's loving description of the joyful, excited preparations for bringing home their adopted baby. Phoebe Koehler's simple affectionate words and soft, rich pastels combine to create the perfect read-aloud for adoptive parents to explain the adoption experience to even the youngest children.

Ellen’s Book of Life. Joan Givner, $12.95

During the most difficult summer of her life, Ellen finally begins the search for her birth mother. The results are surprising, moving and often very funny, turning life upside down in more ways than one.

Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption. Edited by Sara Holloway, $18.95

Family has always been fertile ground for writers. To the usual familial themes, adoption adds its own potent elements: mystery, luck, the questing for origins, the yearning for a child, the importance (or not) of blood ties, and fundamental questions about what it is to become a parent and a family … The pieces in Family Wanted reveal profound truths about identity, family, love and belonging.

Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the Nineteenth Century to the 1990s. Veronica Strong-Boag, $49.95

Finding Families, Finding Ourselves traces the history of adoption in English Canada from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. Relying on public records rather than interviews, historian Veronica Strong-Boag examines how childrearing, class relations, gender, religion, ethnicity and race, Aboriginal-settler contact, international exchanges, and (re)connection shaped and informed the thinking and practices of adoption as they emerged over the years. Her research looks at diverse sources including legislation, the popular media, royal commission reports, biographies and autobiographies, and fiction and poetry — providing an unexplored vantage point from which to assess the overall development of adoption as a central and all too often under-appreciated institution in English Canada.

Finding Joy. Marion Coste, illustrated by Yong Chen, $22.00

Finding Joy is the moving story of a mother who travels to China to adopt her daughter. With three almost grown children at home, she and her husband feel their family is not complete and they miss the joy of a baby in the home. Beautifully illustrated by Yong Chen, Marion Coste’s story tells how infant girls in China are often abandoned by families who have surpassed the “one-child” law or have delivered a daughter rather than the longed-for son.

A Forever Family: a True Story of Adoption. John Houghton, $16.00

John Houghton and his wife — middle class, highly educated, well-traveled — learned that they could not have children of their own. Instead they adopted three siblings, two boys and a girl, who were looking for 'a forever family', as the adoption agencies put it. What followed is all too common in adoptive families, but it is rarely talked about in public and has never been described with such transparent honesty as it is in the pages of this remarkable book … This is a story of desperate wanting, of anger and frustrated love. It is written with a kind of plain clarity that is both restrained and emotionally powerful. There is no triumphant victory over pain and loss, but there is, in the end, something like hope — a testament to the difference that two decent people can make by sustaining their commitment to an impossible situation.

Forever Lily: an Unexpected Mother’s Journey to Adoption in China. Beth Nonte Russell, $15.99

"Will you take her?" she asks.

When Beth Nonte Russell travels to China to help her friend Alex adopt a baby girl from an orphanage there, she thinks it will be an adventure, a chance to see the world. But her friend, who had prepared for the adoption for many months, panics soon after being presented with the frail baby, and the situation develops into one of the greatest challenges of Russell's life … As it becomes clear that her friend — whose indecisiveness about the adoption has become a torment — won't be bringing the baby home, Russell is amazed to realize that she cannot leave the baby behind and that her dreams have been telling her something significant, giving her the courage to open her heart and bring the child home against all odds.

Steeped in Chinese culture, Forever Lily is an extraordinary account of a life-changing, wholly unexpected love.

From China with Love: a Long Road to Motherhood. Emily Buchanan, $31.99

Although Emily Buchanan had a highly successful career in broadcasting and a loving husband there was something missing from her life: she desperately wanted children. After the trauma of three miscarriages, Emily and her husband Gerald were forced to accept the knowledge that they would not be able to have children of their own and decided to look into adoption … In this touching story Emily describes their first meeting with Jade Lin, who had been left on the steps of an orphanage in a small town in Inner Mongolia just after she had been born. Unlike many of the thousands of less fortunate babies abandoned each year in China, Jade Lin had been placed with a foster family before being approved for adoption and allocated to a family. It was love at first sight for Emily and Gerald, but they still had obstacles of language and culture to cross, as well as dealing with the reaction of friends and family back at home. This diary tells in vivid detail the highs and lows of Emily's journey to motherhood.

Gentle Transitions: a Newborn Baby’s Point of View about Adoption. Michael Trout, $79.95 DVD format, 10 minutes

Suggestions on what grown-ups should think about — and do — to make the adoption experience work best for a baby. Presented as if written by an infant, this ten-minute video may be useful for birthparents, adoptive parents and adoption training.

Thirteen year-old Dez is unusually neat. Her mom and dad are casual and messy. They like “back-to-the earth stuff”, the Grateful Dead and swamps. Dez likes elegant food and grand pianos. How can she even be related to them? And how can Dez help her best friend, Jil, who’s adopted and who will stop at nothing in order to meet her birth mom? What is it, exactly, that makes a parent “real,” anyway? Get Real is about wanting a parent who is very different from the one you have. It’s about discovering, “Who am I?”

A powerful and groundbreaking look at the history of hundreds of thousands of young single American women forced to give up their newborn children in the fifties, sixties, and early seventies. The Girls Who Went Away tells a story not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devastating double standard that has had punishing long-term effects on these women and on the children they gave up for adoption. Based on Fessler's groundbreaking interviews, it brings to brilliant life these women's voices and the spirit of the time, allowing each to share her own experience in gripping and intimate detail.

Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption: What Children Need to Know. Fanny Cohen Herlem, $14.95

This handy, practical guide offers useful advice for parents, counselors and other professionals working with adopted children.

Growing Girls: the Mother of All Achievements. Jeanne Marie Laskas, $32.00

With the wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will instantly recognize, Washington Post magazine columnist Jeanne Marie Laskas offers a poignant and laugh-out-loud meditation on that greatest, and most impossible, of all life’s journeys: motherhood. From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding job in the world–even if it’s never been done right.

Guji Guji. Chih-Yuan Chen, $23.95

In this engaging and beautifully illustrated story about identity, loyalty and family, Guji Guji — the "crocoduck" — makes some big decisions about who he is, what he is and what it means to be a family.

Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners and Families. Rafael Javier, et al, $66.95

This extensive resource is designed for researchers, practitioners, students and families interested in learning more about working with adoption triad members (birth parent, adoptive parent and adoptee). It w will be particularly relevant in counselor training programs that emphasize developing clinical skills with a variety of clients.

The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine: a Guide for Physicians, Parents and Providers. Laurie Miller, $55.95

The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine presents an overview of the medical and developmental issues that affect internationally adopted children, offering guidelines for families and physicians before, during, and after adoption. Laurie Miller has comprehensively researched these topics and also draws from over fifteen years of experience in international adoption and orphanages throughout the world. This book shows how to advise families prior to an international adoption, how to perform an effective initial screening assessment of the newly arrived child, how to manage common behaviour problems, and how to recognize and manage developmental and other more long-term problems as they emerge. Sections cover such subjects as the risks of prenatal exposures, problems in growth and development, infectious diseases, and other medical conditions such as inherited disorders, uncertain age, and precocious puberty. This book is an invaluable resource for families and professionals in the field of international adoption.

Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love. Michael Orlans & Terry Levy, $38.95

Attachment is the deep connection that children and parents/caregivers establish early in life. This connection is basic to every aspect of a child’s emotional, social and cognitive development. Healing Parents is a toolbox filled with practical strategies and research that help parents and caregivers understand their child, learn to respond in a constructive way, and create a healthy environment. Readers will learn to develop their child’s positive beliefs and establish trust by emphasizing respect, providing appropriate limits, consistent structure, and being a positive role model.

Michael Orlans and Terry Levy, authors of the best-selling Attachment, Trauma and Healing (1998), have created a guide designed to provide the information, tools, support, self-awareness and hope needed to help a wounded child heal emotional wounds and improve behaviorally, socially, and morally.

Help! I’ve Been Adopted. Brenda McCreight, $16.99

Help! I’ve Been Adopted will answer many of the questions that adoptees have about their lives. This book presents issues such as “Why do birth parents give up or lose their children?”, “What is attachment and how does it affect my life?” “How do adoptive parents get matched to a child?” “Who makes all the decisions about a child’s life” and more.

This book is full of helpful suggestions to promote discussion between the adoptive parents and the child, and it will help social workers and counselors gain a new perspective on how to support the early stages of an adoption placement.

The Hope-Filled Parent: Meditations for Foster and Adoptive Parents of Children Who Have Been Harmed. Michael Trout, $20.95 CD format

This series of meditations is designed to help foster and adoptive parents maintain calm, focus and strength during the most challenging moments of life with a challenging child.

In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees. Rita Simon & Rhonda Roorda, $36.95

In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s … Now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines.

These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend trans-racial adoption to others. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand accounts, Simon and Roorda once more bring an academic and human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption.

Insight Into Adoption: Uncovering and Understanding the Heart of Adoption, 2nd Edition. Barbara Taylor Bloomquist, $39.95

Insight Into Adoption emphasizes the need to help parents understand some of the potentially challenging aspects of raising adopted children so they can deal with them proactively and positively. The book provides realistic and factual insight into the world of the adoptive child, and is a valuable resource for parents, social workers, counselors and educators.

Journey Home. Lawrence McKay, Jr., illustrated by Dom & Keunhee Lee, $10.95

Ten-year-old Mai is off to Vietnam with her mother to search for her mother’s birth family. Adopted in North America after the Vietnam War, Mai’s mother has always wanted to see her birthplace and look for her other family but Mai is alternately fearful of what they will find and excited by everything they experience.

Keys to Parenting an Adopted Child, 2nd Edition. Kathy Lancaster, $10.99

Practical and in an easy-to-read format, Keys to Parenting an Adopted Child tells parents what they need to know about raising well-adjusted adopted children. From family preparation, bonding and developmental stages to adjustment difficulties, attachment issues, inter-racial/international adoptions and more, this is a detailed and helpful guide for contemporary families.

Labor of the Heart: a Parent’s Guide to the Decisions and Emotions in Adoption. Kathleen Whitten, $16.95

Adoptive parents often experience the double trial of emotional responses to infertility and to the process of adoption itself. Would-be adoptive parents cycle through grief, anger, fear, anxiety, frustration and guilt. All of these emotions cloud decision-making, at exactly the time that adoptive parents are making life-altering, irrevocable decisions.

Kathleen Whitten, a developmental psychologist and adoptive mother, separates fact from fiction and leads parents through the many emotions the process involves. Written in a reassuring, conversational tone, the author tells parents when they should listen to their heart and when practical considerations are too important to ignore. Each chapter features workbook section with constructive exercises and stimulating questions.

Labours of Love: Canadians Talk about Adoption. Deborah Brennan, $28.99

Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians connected through adoption. While each account is unique, there are undeniable commonalities in these stories from birthparents adoptive parents and adoptees.

The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption and the Children of War in Vietnam. Dana Sachs, $32.95

In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U.S. government launched "Operation Babylift," a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly three thousand displaced Vietnamese children and place them with adoptive families overseas. Chaotic from start to finish, the mission gripped the world. Now, 35 years after the war ended, Dana Sachs examines this unprecedented event more carefully, revealing how a single public-policy gesture irrevocably altered thousands of lives, not always for the better.

With sensitivity and balance, The Life We Were Given will inspire impassioned discussion and spur dialogue on the human cost of war, international adoption and aid efforts, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

The Little Green Goose. Adele Sansone, Illustrated by Anke Faust, $18.95 (ages 4-8)

Mr. Goose longs for a baby of his own, but when he finds an egg to sit on it hatches into a most unusual chick! This is story about the families that love makes.

Living with FASD: a Guide for Parents. 3rd Edition. Sara Graefe, $24.95

One percent of North Americans suffer from FASD … It's no wonder that this book is a Canadian bestseller with over 40,000 copies sold! Bringing up-to-date and comprehensive information about FASD, this edition includes the latest Institute of Medicine diagnostic criteria and terms, special considerations for infants and adolescents, parent needs, and an expanded resource list.

Living with Prenatal Drug Exposure: a Guide for Parents. Lissa Cowan & Jennifer Lee, $24.95
Modeled on the best selling Living with FASD: a Guide for Parents, this comprehensive book for parents and professionals introduces caregivers to the challenges of caring for a child prenatally exposed to drugs. The guide offers practical techniques and strategies, debunks well-known myths, explores social issues and includes a workbook section for parents and other caregivers.

A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents. Pamela Kruger & Jill Smolowe, editors, $18.50

Impressive for both its breadth and its quality, A Love Like No Other is a timely and heartwarming mosaic of the contemporary lives of adoptive parents and their children. In elegant prose and with refreshing honesty, these essays will introduce you to a group of families you won't soon forget.

The Lucky Ones: Our Stories of Adopting Children from China. Edited by Ann Rauhala, foreword by Jan Wong, $19.95

Since the late 1980s, as many as 7,000 Chinese-born girls have been adopted annually and now live in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. The story of these children is a compelling narrative of hope and optimism but it may also become a story of dislocation and crisis of identity. The memoirs collected in The Lucky Ones grapple with this odd destiny with insight, compassion, humour and above all, love.

Lucy's Family Tree. Karen Halvorsen Schreck, illustrated by Stephen Gassler, $8.95

When Lucy comes home from school with a family tree assignment, she asks her parents to write her a note to excuse her from the task. Lucy's adoption from Mexico makes her feel as though her family is too "different," but her parents gently and wisely challenge Lucy to think some more about it and to find three families that are the "same."

Made in China: a Story of Adoption. Vanita Oelschlager, Illustrated by Kristin Blackwood, $19.50

Made In China is the story of an adopted Chinese girl coping with two emotionally charged subjects; understanding her adoption and coping with sibling rivalry. Teased by her sister for having as much worth as their Chinese-made broom, she must now try to understand where she came from and feels the anxiety of whether she really belongs in her North American family. With help from her father, the adopted sister learns the value of her Chinese beginnings. Later, the girls accept their differences and embrace the joy that comes within a loving family.

Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Open through Adoption. Micky Duxbury, $20.95

An intimate look at how open adoption relationships develop over time, Making Room in Our Hearts helps both birth and adoptive parents address their fears and concerns — while putting the child’s needs at the centre of adoption.

More than Love is the candid and heartbreaking account of the adoption, parenting and eventual relinquishment of three attachment-disordered brothers. The book is an emotional tale of perseverance and helplessness, joy and despair that vividly describes the parents' frustration with the system meant to support them and their efforts to build the support they needed with the help of therapists, psychologists, clergy, teachers, social workers, friends and family.

Motherbridge of Love. Josée Masse, $22.95

This beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little Chinese girl and her mother, Motherbridge of Love offers a poignant and inspiring message to parents and children all over the world.

A Mother for Choco. Keiko Kasza, $6.99 Ages 4-7

Choco is a little yellow bird who lives all alone. He wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? One day, he decides to search for a mother. First he asks Mrs. Giraffe, but she is not Choco's mother-she doesn't have wings like he does. Then he asks Mrs. Penguin, but she doesn't have big round cheeks like Choco. None of the animals seems to be right for Choco. Will he ever find a mother?

Adopted children need to know they are special, loved, and secure. Read this book with your adopted child to show them the never-ending reach of your love.

This beautiful baby book will make a lovely keepsake for all kinds of adoptive families. Includes over 60 stickers, so you can customize the family tree pages and a sturdy pocket in which to store memorabilia.

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Trauma and Neglect. Deborah Gray, $30.95

From the author of Attaching in Adoption (already a must-have book for both adoptive parents and placement professionals) comes this new tool designed to help placement professionals and therapists understand how new research on the impact of neglect, abuse, early trauma, and institutionalization on the developing brains of children can guide their practices in new directions. Nurturing Adoption’s goal is to help professionals to assist parents in healing their children’s and guiding them into strong and healthy relationships and productive adulthood.

Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children who are Fostered or Adopted. Kim Golding, $34.95

This valuable tool for parents and adoption professionals presents an accessible overview of attachment theory and a step-by-step approach to developing resilience and emotional growth.

Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity. Marilyn Lammert, Ellen Lee & Mary Anne Hess, $14.75

Once They Hear My Name brings to life the stories of nine Korean adoptees, who, in their own words, talk about growing up far from their ethnic origins. These are tales of acceptance and rejection, of struggle and success. The book is a major step forward in our collective understanding of the cultural hurdles international adoptees must tackle everyday.

One Small Boat: the Story of a Little Girl, Lost then Found. Kathy Harrison, $33.00

In One Small Boat, foster parent Kathy Harrison tells the story of one little girl who arrived on her doorstep, and describes how caring for this child was an experience that challenged everything she thought she knew about foster-care parenting and the needs of the children she shelters.

Paper Shadows: a Chinatown Memoir. Wayson Choy, $20.00

In 1995, during the publicity tour for his first novel Jade Peony, author Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to have just seen his mother on a streetcar. He politely informed her that his mother had died long ago. “No, no. Not that mother,” the voice insisted, “Your real mother”.

The startling realization that, like many children of Chinatown, he had been adopted was the inspiration for this vivid and beautiful memoir.

Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow. Gregory Keck & Regina Kupecky, $20.50

The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life.

Parenting the Hurt Child explains how to manage a hurting child with loving wisdom and resolve and how to preserve your stability while untangling their thorny hearts.

The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child. Nancy Newton Verrier, $17.95

The Primal Wound is a book which will revolutionize the way we think about adoption. In its application of information about pre-and-perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding, and loss it clarifies the effects of separation from the birthmother on adopted children. In addition, it gives those children, whose pain has long been unacknowledged or misunderstood, validation for their feeling, as well as explanations for their behavior. The insight which Ms. Verrier brings to the experiences of abandonment and loss will contribute not only to their healing of adoptees, their adoptive families, and birthmothers, but will bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned.

Rebecca's Journey Home. Brynn Olenberg Sugarman, illustrated by Michelle Shapiro, $21.95

Two young Jewish brothers eagerly await the arrival of their new baby sister from Vietnam.

The Red Blanket. Eliza Thomas, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, $17.99

This is a beautiful love letter of a story, written by a single mother to her adoptive daughter from China.

Returnable Girl. Pamela Lowell, $21.95

Thirteen years old, Ronnie has been "returned" from multiple foster homes because of her impulsive lying and stealing. Her latest foster mom, Alison, is Ronnie’s very last chance—if she doesn’t want to end up in some awful residential treatment center … As Ronnie struggles to define herself, an important letter will present her with the most heart-wrenching decision of her life: to accept the woman who wants to adopt her, or to return to the mother who once abandoned her.

A Sane Woman’s Guide to Raising a Large Family. Mary Ostyn, $20.95

A Sane Woman’s Guide to Raising a Large Family is written from the practical, experienced perspective of a mother ten. Whether your idea of a large family is three kids or 13, here is a commonsense approach to thriving in a bustling household and cherishing each child as an individual.

A Sister for Matthew: a Story about Adoption. Pamela Kennedy, illustrated by Amy Wummer, $10.95

Matthew is about to become a big brother. His sister is coming from a country on the other side of the world! When Matthew finds out about his new sister from China, he is not sure he wants – or needs – a sister at all.

slant. Laura Williams, $8.00

One Korean-American adoptee's struggle with self-image, name-calling, and the travails of eighth grade.

Somebody’s Daughter: a Novel. Marie Myung-Ok Lee, $15.95

Somebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes more and more intrigued by her Korean heritage, eventually embarking on a crusade to find her birth mother. Paralleling Sarah's story is that of Kyung-sook, who was forced by difficult circumstances to let her baby be swept away from her immediately after birth, but who has always longed for her lost child.

The Starlight Baby. Gillian Shields, illustrated by Elizabeth Harbour, $16.95

“Gillian Shields' poetic expression of maternal love and Elizabeth Harbour's beautiful watercolors will melt hearts. This is an exquisite picture book for mothers and children to cherish.”

Thinking Psychologically about Children Who Are Looked After and Adopted: Space for Reflection. Kim Golding, Helen Dent, Ruth Nissim & Liz Stott, editors, $60.99

Assessment, intervention and living with children who are looked after or adopted all require an understanding of psychology and its application. Informed by research, practice and psychological theory, this volume provides an overview of the area and considers the context for helping children change and develop. It goes on to describe in detail the techniques and approaches used by clinicians, and explains how interventions can be developed and adapted for children and young people living in residential, foster and adoptive care. With its multi-disciplinary approach, Thinking Psychologically About Children Who Are Looked After and Adopted will appeal to all professionals involved in the care and education of placed children. It will also be of interest to policy makers and lecturers and students of social work.

Ten Days and Nine Nights: an Adoption Story. Yumi Heo, $18.99

A little girl counts the days until her mother and new baby sister come home from South Korea.

10 Steps to Successful International Adoption: a Guided Workbook for Prospective Parents. Brenda Uekert, $23.95

A concise, practical workbook that will help readers make informed decisions and move forward in their adoption plans.

10 Things: Adopted Teens Speak Out. Kinship Center, $50.95 DVD format, 60 minutes

Watch and listen to the original words and thoughts of adopted teens, addressed to the adults in their lives. This is an emotional journey into the unique insights and feelings of adopted teenagers. The concept and content was developed by an adopted teens group as a project for their parents at an annual intensive adoptive family camp. While powerful and thought provoking, it is certain to prompt discussion whether used with parents, teens or professionals.

10 Things: Adoption Search & Reunion. Kinship Center, $50.95 DVD format, 59 minutes

This video presents ten things to consider in an adoption search and reunion. The process is an emotional journey that can take many unexpected twists and turns. The moderator, Sharon Roszia, is a nationally known adoption and permanency expert and trainer. Sharon shares her insights and lessons learned while highlighting the personal stories of an adult adoptee and a birth mother.

The Thunderstruck Stork. David Olson & Lynn Munsinger, $18.95 (ages 4-7)

Webster the stork is proud of his work delivering animal babies. But when he crashes into a hot-air balloon, something goes wrong in his head. Soon the bats are brought a young moose, the sparrows get a piglet, and two tiny frog parents receive an enormous newborn elephant! This wise and delightful story shows what really makes a family. Lynn Munsinger’s comical illustrations are the perfect complement to David J. Olson’s hilarious rhyming tale of this mixed-up stork.

Toddler Adoption: the Weaver's Craft. Mary Hopkins-Best, $17.95

"When a child is adopted as a toddler, his needs and those of his adoptive family are different from the needs seen in infant or school-age adoptions. Yet few resources are available to deal with these special issues. In this work, Hopkins-Best, a child development expert and mother of a child adopted as a toddler, provides a guidebook for those considering toddler adoption or those already struggling with its special challenges. She discusses at length strategies for dealing with issues such as a grieving toddler or attachment disorder. She also explains normal toddler development and possible variances in the adopted toddler. The appendix provides a wonderful list of resources. Perhaps most valuable are the anecdotes of both successes and failures from other toddler adoptive families. An important addition to all Adoption collections." —Library Journal.

20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed. Sherrie Eldridge, $19.95

Discover the secrets to understanding the unique needs of your adopted child and becoming the best parent you can be.

Two Little Girls: a Memoir of Adoption. Theresa Reid, $17.50

Theresa Reid chronicles the long, often excruciating, and ultimately joyous journey that led her to adopt two little girls from Russia and Ukraine, in an unforgettable true story of fragile hopes and steadfast love.

Understanding and Meeting the Nine Most Important Emotional Needs of Foster and Adopted Children. Bryan Post & Juli Alvarado, $37.95 DVD 40 minutes

By meeting these nine basic emotional needs you will see a reduction in disrupted placements and an increase in families and children feeling supported. The systems for children in care must have up to date knowledge of the experiences of children the challenges that these families face. This 40 minute educational DVD workshop will help social workers in providing more effective support to the families they work with.

The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another. Cindy Champnella, $15.95

The Waiting Child is an extraordinary story of human resilience in the face of tremendous odds. Adopted by an American family at age four, Jaclyn goes to her new home with a great burden. Her new family had to leave behind a little boy who had been under her charge at the Chinese orphanage. Jaclyn inspires two families, several agencies, and two governments to cooperate to reunite her with "her baby." Everyone who reads this story will believe in the power of love to change the world.

We Are Adopted. Jennifer Moore-Mallinos, illustrated by Rose M. Curto, $8.50 (Ages 4–7)

A little girl is very excited because now she has a baby brother—an adopted baby brother. A few years earlier, she too had been adopted. Like the children in this story, adopted kids learn that their adoptive parents wanted them very much, and love them very dearly and will be encouraged to explore their own feelings about problems that might be bothering them, or to find answers to a wide array of questions that puzzle them.

A Wealth of Family: an Adopted Son’s International Quest for Heritage, Reunion and Enrichment. Thomas Brooks, $19.95

This inspiring account of adoption, reunion and heritage provides a timely and provocative perspective on multicultural families and powerful insights on overcoming racism and poverty.

Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption. Barbara Katz Rothman, $23.95

Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all-race, family, and adoption-within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood.

Welcome, Precious. Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Bryan Collier, $7.99

Full of warmth and tenderness, this exquisitely illustrated boardbook offers a lullaby of love.

What Every Adoptive Parent Needs to Know: Healing Your Child’s Wounded Heart. Kate Cremer-Vogel, with Dan & Cassie Richards, $28.95

This remarkable true-life story of raising two adopted children is a tale of hope and resilience, of two parents unprepared for their children’s psychological wounds that only time would reveal. By following the threads of the Richards’ moving story, clarified by insightful analysis and practical advice from family therapist Kate Cremer-Vogel, this compelling book reveals how the effects of childhood wounds can be transformed with therapeutic parenting techniques. Most importantly, it shows that profound healing is possible when adoptive families realize that traditional parenting is not enough.

What is Adoption? Helping Non-Adopted Children Understand Adoption. Sofie Stergianis & Rita McDowall. $15.99; Bundle price - 3 copies for $43.00

This book helps adults explain and talk with children about adoption, answering their many questions with clear, factual and loving answers. For parents, relatives, teachers, counsllors, caregivers and other caring adults.

When Adoptions Go Wrong: Psychological and Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption. Lita Linzer Schwatz, $18.50

When Adoptions Go Wrong examines the psychological and forensic aspects of adoption with an emphasis on how negative events can affect children and the families that choose to adopt them and how to prevent those events from happening.

Why I Chose You: 100 Reasons Why Adopting You Made Us a Family. Gregory Lang, $16.75

Why I Chose You captures the special moments that reflect the importance of family ties in this series of beautiful photographs of adoptive families.

Without a Map: a Memoir. Meredith Hall, $15.00

Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father—in her own father's hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall's parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.

The Wonder of You: a Book for Celebrating Baby’s First Year. Nancy Tillman, $21.95

This is the perfect gift to welcome the little ones in your life. The Wonder of You celebrates milestones and creates memories in this exquisite and fully inclusive baby book.

You CAN Adopt. Susan Caughman & Isolde Motley, $19.00

From deciding to homecoming — practical advice and real-life stories from adoptive families.