Adoption FYI: Prospective Adoptive Families

Adoption Books

Books I've Reviewed

If you have an adoption book you particularly love or has been very helpful and would like to suggest it (or review it!) please email me at adoptionfyi at gmail dot com.

(* indicates I have read this book, ^ indicates it is on my reading list)

From Birth Parent's Prospective
*Life Givers- Framing the Birthparent Experience in Open Adoption. by James L. Gritter
*Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption by Sara Holloway-editor
^Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber and Phyllis Speedlin
*The Best for You by Kelsey Stewart (written from a Birth Mother's perspective to her child.)

From Adoptive Parent's Prospective
*Secret Thoughts of and Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolf
*Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption Sara Holloway-editor
*A Love Like Not Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents Pameal Kruger and Jill Smolowe- editors
For the Love of a Child: The Journey of Adoption by Monica Blume

From Adoptee's Prospective
*Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption by Sara Holloway-editor

Guides
*The Adoption Decision: 15 Things You Want to Know Before Adopting by Laura Christianson
*Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year by Randall B. Hicks
*The Adoption Network: Your Guide to Starting a Support System by Laura Christianson
*Adoption is a Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know by Patricia Irwin Johnston
The Open Adoption Experience - A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families

by Lois Ruskai Melina

For Children
How I was Adopted by Joanna Cole
My Special Family by Kathleen Silber and Debra Parelskin
Oliver by Lois Wickstrom
*Tell me Again About the Night I was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
*Sam's Sister by Juliet C. Bond and Dawn Majewski
*The Best for You by Kelsey Stewart
*God Found Us You Lisa Tawn Bergren (Author) Laura J. Bryant (Illustrator)
*Motherbridge of Lov e Author unknown, Josee Masse (Illustrator)