The Primal Wound
Understanding the Adopted Child
By Nancy Newton-Verrier
ISBN 0-963 364 80 01 Gateway
Adopters on Adoption
By David Howe
Reflections on parenthood and children
BAAF 1996
ISBN 1-873868-32-4
Raising Adopted Children – practical advice for every adoptive parent
By Lois Ruskai Melina
ISBN 0-06-095717-4
Making Sense of Adoption – A Parents Guide
By Lois Ruskai Melina
ISBN 0-06-096319-0
A Child’s Journey Through Placement
By Vera Fahlberg
BAAF 1994
A theoretical and practical guide to understanding and dealing with common issues in adoption placements including attachment, helping children when they move, child development, common behaviour problems
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss
Claudia Jewett
Batsford/BAAF
A description of the stages of mourning and the behaviour that can be expected from children, and techniques for helping them through the grieving process
Parenting the Child Who Hurts – The First Steps
Caroline Archer
Published by Adoption UK
Next Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts – Tykes and Teens
Caroline Archer
Published by Adoption UK
Talking About Adoption to Your Adopted Child
By Prue Chennells & Marjorie Morrison
BAAF
The Long Awaited Stork
By Ellen Sarashon Glazer
A guide to parenting after infertility
Lexington Books
ISBN 0-02-911814-x
Real Parents, Real Children
Holy Van Gulden and
Lisa Bartels-Rabb
Crossroad
ISBN 08245 1514-5
The Adoption Reader
Edited by S.Wadia-Ellis
Birth mothers, Adoptive Mothers and Adopted Daughters tell their stories
Seal Press
ISBN 1-878067-65-6
Half a Million Women
By Howe, Hinnings and Sawbridge
Published by Penguin 1992
ISBN 0-436-19155-5.
The Adoption Experience – families who give children a second chance
Ann Morris
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
ISBN 1 85302 783 9
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN ABOUT ADOPTION
Bye Bye Baby
By Janet and Allan Ahlberg
(about a baby looking for a mum and dad)
ISBN 0-7497-0624-4
Horace
By Holly Keller
(about a leopard adopted by tiger parents)
ISBN 0-688-11844-5
Adoption is for Always
By Linda Walvoord Girard (US)
ISBN 0-8075-0187-5 (suitable for school age children)
Lets Talk About It: Adoption
By Fred Rogers
ISBN 0-698-11625-9 (suitable for school age children)
Big Panda, Little Panda
By Joan Stimson
ISBN 0-590-55423-9 (suitable when adopting a younger sibling into the family)
How I was Adopted
By Joanna Cole
published by Mulberry Books
ISBN 0-688-17055-2
Why was I Adopted?
By Carole Livingstone
Angus and Roberts
ISBN 0-207-14404-4
Chester and Daisy Move On
A story about two bear cubs who are adopted
By Angela Lidster
BAAF
ISBN 1-873868-19-7
Nutmeg Gets Adopted
By Judith Foxon
Explores the reasons why children are adopted
BAAF
ISBN 1-873868-99-5
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