Great Books on Adoption and Foster Care

I'm still too tired to share all I learned from the Tapestry conference, but I do want to share some recommended reading (other than The Connected Child, which you must own). You can find the full list here, but these are a few that are on my current wishlist:

*Adoption is a Family Affair! – What Friends and Family Must Know, Patricia Irwin Johnston

*“Parenting Is Your Highest Calling” And 8 Other Myths That Trap Us in Worry and Guilt, Leslie Leyland Fields

*Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families, Jayne Schooler, Betsy Keefer Smalley and Timothy J. Callahan

*I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla, Marguerite Wright

*In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, Rita J. Simon & Rhonda M. Roorda

*The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Carol S. Kranowitz

Books for Kids:

*Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care, Jennifer Wilgocki

*Murphy’s Three Homes (A Story for Children in Foster Care), Jan Levinson Gilman

*My Adopted Child, There’s No One Like You, Kevin Leman

*Rosie’s Family, Lori Rosove

W.I.S.E. Up Powerbook (For Children Who Were Adopted), The Center for Adoption Support and Education (Tapestry Comment: An excellent resource to help empower your kids to know and be able to answer (or not answer) questions about their family and their adoption. Highly recommended for all adoptive families with school-age children.)

W.I.S.E. Up Powerbook (For Children in Foster Care), The Center for Adoption Support and Education (Tapestry Comment: Similar to the original W.I.S.E Up Powerbook for children who were adopted, this resource is a great way to help talk with and empower children in foster care to better understand, accept and handle their story.)