Books

The staff of Christian Adoption Services believes adequate pre-placement training is crucial for a successful placement. Informed perspective adoptive parents tend to have reasonable expectations and meet their child’s specific needs in an appropriate way. While the resources for perspective adoptive parents adopting internationally differ somewhat from those adopting domestically, certain issues will be common regardless.

Books

On Adoption

  • Talking with Young Children About Adoption by Mary Watkins
  • So You Want to Adopt…Now What? by Sara Dormon
  • Is Adoption for You? by Christine Adamec
  • Making Room in Our Hearts by Micky Duxbury
  • Parenting the Adopted Child by Holly van Guiden & Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
  • Adoption Without Fear by James L. Gritter
  • Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston
  • Into the Arms of Love by Jean A. Veckruise
  • Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina
  • Adoption Parenting by Jean Macleod & Sheena Macrae
  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
  • Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall
  • Toddler Adoption by Mary Hopkins-Best
  • The Whole Life Adoption Book by Jayne E. Schooler
  • Are Those Kids Yours? by Cheri Register

On Domestic Adoption

  • Open Adoption Experience by Lois Ruskai Melina
  • Children of Open Adoption and Their Familiesby Kathleen Sibler
  • My Child is a Mother: A True and Happy Story About Open Adoption by Mary Stephenson
  • The Open Adoption Book: A Guide to Adoption Without Tears by Bruce Rappaport
  • Masterpiece of Joy: From the Deepest Despair of Infertility to the Joy of Adoption by Bobbi Grubb
  • Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections by Jean McLeod
  • Black Baby, White Hands by Jaiya John
  • The Spirit of Open Adoption by James L. Gritter
  • Arms Wide Open by Jane Waters

On International Adoption

  • “Because They Waited” video series by Heart of the Matter Seminars
  • The Complete Book of International Adoption by Dawn Davenport

On Special Needs Adoption

  • The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
  • Battle Cries: Justice for Kids with Special Needs by Miriam Edelson
  • When Your Child Has a Disability by Mark L. Batshaw, M.D.
  • The Child with Special Needs; Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D and Serena Weider, PhD.
  • In Time and With Love: Caring for the Special Needs Baby by Marilyn Segal

For the Adoptees

For Children

  • A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
  • The Day We Met You by Phoebe Koehler
  • Megan’s Birthday Tree: A Story About Open Adoption by Laurie Leans & Bill Farnsworth
  • My Special Family: A Children’s Book About Open Adoption by Kathleen Silber
  • I Wished for You an adoption story by Marianne Richmond
  • Did My First Mother Love Me? A Story for an Adopted Child by Kathryn Ann Miller
  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Shaoey and Dot by Mary Beth & Steven Curtis Chapman

For Teens

  • Special Kind of Love by Judy Baer
  • About David by Susan Pfeffer
  • Adoption by Gerri Glotzbach
  • April and May by Jane Peart
  • Don’t Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker
  • Emerald’s Desire by Paula Lee
  • Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry
  • Finders by Jan Dean
  • Harley by Cat Bauer
  • Heaven by Angela Johnson
  • I See the Moon by C Christiansen
  • Most Precious Blood by Susan Pfeffer
  • No Turning Back by Judy Baer
  • Rewind by William Sleator
  • Sarah by Kathie Nichols
  • Someone to Love by Francess Lantz
  • Something Old Something New by Judy Baer
  • There’s No Place Like Home by AG Cascone
  • Who Am I by Charlene Giannetti
  • Aggie’s Home by Joan Lowery Nixon
  • A Kindness by Cynthia Rylant

For the Adult

  • Titles coming soon