This children’s book is about a young boy’s journey from foster care to adoption. It highlights the adoption process in simple terms and is meant for adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption-competent professionals alike.
This book is about a girl who has lived in an orphanage for most of her life. She has acted as a caretaker for other children and hopes to be adopted. Eventually, she’s invited to stay with two different families. This is a heartwarming story about love, family, and hope.
This is a true story about life in a Saigon orphanage, a rescue flight from Vietnam to Canada, and international adoption. It tells the story of the last Canadian airlift operation that left Saigon during the Vietnam War. Using personal interviews and archive photos, an adoptee’s journey with adoption becomes an emotional and suspenseful read.
This book is about a young girl who is cared for by her great grandmother. When her great grandmother is placed into a nursing facility, she is sent to a foster home. This book deals with heavy concepts, like abuse, coercion, and indoctrination.
This book emphasizes that adoptees have varying backgrounds. It argues that adoptees have the right to ask questions about their background (adoption documents, agency, etc.). The author states that this book is “completely biased on the rights of adopted people.” The author also asserts that adoptees should be void of influence from adoption authorities.
Based on true events, this book is about The Foss children’s journey with loss and being placed into an orphanage. This book focuses on the themes of family, resilience, and corruption.
This is a fictitious story about a young girl, Carlie, and her journey through foster care. She befriends the other children that she shares a foster home with and they all learn that they can take control of their own lives. Some themes of this book include perseverance, courageousness, and growing up.
This is a book series following the four Alden siblings, who make their home in a boxcar. The books focus on themes such as family, home, and resourcefulness.
This book is “a special celebration of the love and joy an adopted child creates for a family. In asking her parents to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl relives a cherished tale she knows by heart. Focusing on the significance of family and love, this is story about adoption and the importance of a loving family.” This book also “speaks to the universal childhood desire to know more about the excitement, awe, love, and sleeplessness that a new baby brings to a family.”
This is a children’s book about a young bird (Choco) who journeys to find a mother who looks just like himself. Eventually, he is taken in by a family that he is not related to. This book is centered around the idea that family is about love — regardless of biological relationship. It emphasizes that families can be, and often are, very diverse.
