Adoption Books: Children



The Queen’s Wish
Kristen Altbaum
(100% of profits benefit Doctors Without Borders. For the price of one book, a malnourished child can eat two nutritious meals a day for sixty days.)

Tell Me Again: About the Night I Was Born
Jamie Lee Curtis

A Mother for Choco
Keiko Kasza

How I Was Adopted: Samantha’s Story
Joanna Cole

Family Book
Todd Parr

The Magical Friendship Garden
Rebekah Barlow Rounce

I Wished for You – An Adoption Story
Marianne Richmond

What is Adoption? Helping Non-Adopted Children Understand Adoption
Sophie Stergianis and Rita McDowall

The Best Single Mom in the World: How I Was Adopted
Mary Zisk

Twice-Upon-a-Time: Born and Adopted
Eleanora Patterson

We See the Moon
Carrie A. Kitze

Is That Your Sister? A True Story of Adoption
Catherine Bunin

You’re Not My Real Mother!
Molly Friedrich

Mommy Far, Mommy Near: An Adoption Story
Carol Antoinette Peacock

Lucy’s Family Tree
Karen Halvorsen Schreck

Happy Adoption Day
John McCutcheon

My Family is Forever
Nancy Carlson

Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale
Karen Katz

I Don’t Have Your Eyes
Carrie A. Kitze

Let’s Talk About It: Adoption
Fred Rogers

“A” is for Adopted
Eileen Tucker Cosby

Rosie’s Family: An Adoption Story
Lori Rosove

Seeds of Love
Mary E. Peteryl

My New Family: A First Look at Adoption
Pat Thomas

Adopted and Loved Forever
Annetta Dellinger

The Day We Met
Phoebe Koehler

Chinese Eyes
Marjorie Anne Waybill (Pauline Cutrell, Illustrator)

I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Rose Lewis

Adoption is for Always
Linda Walvoord Girard

Monsoon Summer
Mitali Perkins

The Sea Chest
Toni Buzzeo and Mary Grandpre

Allison
Allen Say

All about Adoption: How Families are Made
Marc Nemiroff

All Families are Special
Norma Simon

All Kinds of Children
Norma Simon

All Kinds of Families
Norma Simon

Families are Different
Nina Pellegrini

Families Change: A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights
Julie Nelson

I Am Adopted
Mark Dicken-Bradshaw

I Love You So
Marianne R. Richmond

We Belong Together: A Book about Adoption and Families
Todd Parr

Welcome Home Forever Child
Christine Mitchell

Welcome Home Little Baby
Lisa Harper

All Kinds of People
Emma Damon

Colors Come from God Just Like Me
Carolyn A. Forche

Girls Hold Up This World
Jada Pinkett-Smoth and Donyell Kennedy-McCullough

Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families
Peggy Gillespie and Gigi Kaeser

Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?
Sandy Lynne Holman

Black, White, Just Right!
Marguerite W. Davol

Brown Like Me
Noelle Lamperti

All the Colors We Are: Todo los colores de nuestra peil – The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color
Katie Kissinger and Wernher Krutein

Chicken Sunday
Patricia Polacco

Two Mrs. Gibsons
Toyomi Igus

Paul and Sebastian
Rene Escudie and Ulises Wensell

All the Colors of the Earth
Sheila Hamanaka

Children Just Like Me
Anabel Kindersley and Barnabus Kindersley

Black is Brown is Tan
Arnold Adoff and Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator

Celebrations! Children Just Like Me
Barnabus Kindersley and Anabel Kindersley

Colors of Us
Karen Katz

I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem
Jamie Lee Curtis

It’s Okay to be Different
Todd Parr

Star of the Week
Darlene Friedman and Roth Roger

The Skin You Live In
Michael Tyler and David Lee Csicsko

Red in the Flower Bed
Andrea Nepa

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