Recommended Reading
Books Related to Adoption and Care of Vulnerable Children
Recommended Books
Below are a list of recommend books related to adoption and care of vulnerable children. Another excellent resource for books is Tapestry Books. Please note that if you purchase from Amazon Smile and select “Hands of Hope Adoption and Orphan Care Ministry” as your charity of choice, every book you purchase will help vulnerable kids.
Helping Your Child Tell Their Story
All In Orphan Care: Jason Jonson
Before You Were Mine: Susan TeBos, Carissa Woodwyk
I’m Chocolate You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Bi-racial Children in a Race-Conscious World: Marguerite A. White
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories : Rita J. Simon, Rhonda M. Roorda
Journey of the Adopted Self: Betty Jean Lifton
The Beauty and Brokenness of Foster Care: Jason Johnson
With Eyes Wide Open: Margi Miller, Nancy Ward
International Adoption
Adopting in China: A Practical Guide/An Emotional Journey: Kathleen Wheeler, Doug Werner
Parenting your Internationally Adopted Child: Patty Cogen
The Lost Daughters of China: Karin Evans
There is no me without you: Melissa Fay Greene
Somewhere in China a Mother Remembers: Anita M. Andrew
Children’s Books
A Mother for Choco: Keiko Kasza
Doggie Doesn't Know No: Cindy R Lee (And other books by Cindy Lee - all based on Karen Purvis' concepts)
God Found Us You: Lisa Tawn Bergren
Happy Adoption Day: John McCutcheon
I Don’t Have Your Eyes: Carrie Kitze
I Wished for You: an Adoption Story: Marianne R Richmond
Over the Moon: Karen Katz
Shaoey and Dot - Bug meets Bundle: Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman
So Many Special Families: Korynn Wible-Freels
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born: Jamie Lee Curtis
The Adoption Tree: Kimberly James
The Invisible String: Patrice Karst
The Long Ride: Don Regier
Waiting for May: Janet Morgan Stoeke
We Belong Together: Todd Parr