Adoption: Children's books.
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Adopted and Loved Forever, by Annetta E. Dellinger, Patricia Mattozzi (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Hardcover, 22 pages (June 1987)
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A young child describes what it means to be adopted emphasizing that parents of adopted children chose them, love them, and will never leave them.
Adoption Is for Always, by Linda Walvoord Girard, Judith Friedman, Abby Levine
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, 32 pages (October 1987)
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A five-year-old girl, Celia, knows she is adopted. But she is confused and angry, and her parents must deal with her many questions in an honest and loving way. Information about adoption a young child can understand is integrated into the text.
Allison, by Allen Say
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 32 pages (October 1997)
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When Allison's parents explain to her that she is adopted, her world becomes an uncomfortable place. She wonders why she was given up, what her real name is, and whether other children have parents in far away countries. Allison's doll becomes her only solace until she finds a stray cat in the garden and learns the true meaning of adoption and parental love.
Beginnings : How Families Come to Be, by Stacey Schuett (Illustrator), Virginia L. Kroll
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding
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This book introduces six children who want to know "how they began". It explains biological beginnings and covers many different adoption stories. It has a lovely feel to it and expresses that while all these families are different, they all have the love for each other in common.
Being Adopted, by Maxine B. Rosenberg, George Ancona
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Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover 48 pages (May 1985)
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Several young children recount their experiences as adopted members of their families
Benni & Victoria : Friends Through Time, by Patricia H. Aust, Robert Sprouse (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Paperback 117 pages (September 1996)
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Ten-year old Benni Rameriz can't live with his mother anymore. Victoria, the ghost who haunts his school, can't find out what happened to hers. As Benni struggles to find the answers that will allow Victoria to rest, he learns about himself and the true meaning of friendship. Will he be able to help Victoria-and himself-before time runs out?
Bonesy and Isabel, by Michael J. Rosen, James Ransome (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding (April 1995)
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Old Bonesy, the much-loved dog in the house on Sunbury Road, becomes the special companion to Isabel, a newly adopted girl from El Salvador, helping her learn English and adapt to her new home. When Bonesy dies Isabel and her new parents share a grief that crosses language barriers.
Carolyn's Story : A Book About an Adopted Girl, by Perry Schwartz
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Library Binding (September 1996)
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A nine-year-old girl describes her life and her feelings about being adopted as a baby in Honduras. Includes information and resources about adoption.
Day We Met You, by Phoebe Koehler
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding 40 pages 1st Ed. edition (May 1990)
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A special picture book for ages 2-5, The Day We Met You explores a couple lovingly preparing their home for an adopted baby.
Did My First Mother Love Me? : A Story for an Adopted Child With a Special Section for Adoptive Parents, by Kathryn Ann Miller, Jami Moffett (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Paperback 47 pages (August 1994)
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Morgan's adoptive mother reassures her that she is loved by reading a letter written by her birthmother. Includes a section: "Talking with your child about adoption."
Dounia, by Natacha Karvoskaia, Zidrou
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover (September 1995)
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A beautifully illustrated story concerning intercultural, interracial adoption. In a quiet, but at the same time powerful way, readers experience the excitement and anxiety that Dounia feels upon being welcomed into her new family.
Families Are Different, by Nina Pellegrini
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding 1st edition (September 1991)
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An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families.
Finders,by Jan Dean
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, School & Library Binding 151 pages (May 1995)
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A story of suspense and intrigue, 16 year old Helen Draper is at odds with her family, partly because she is adopted. When her grandfather dies, he passes on to her the ability to be a 'finder', someone who can know the secrets of an object by touching it. Helen learns that love is what makes one a part of a family.
Happy Adoption Day, by John McCutcheon, Julie Paschkis (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 32 pages (September 1996)
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Illustrated with bright folk art paintings, this book is an upbeat, happy story of how a couple adopt an asian baby. It is written as a song and music is included.
Heres a Penny, by Carolyn Haywood, Joe Yakovetic
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Paperback 150 pages Reissue edition (March 1986)
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The story of six-year-old Penny, whose real name is William but who looked like a copper penny when he was adopted as a baby.
Horace, by Holly Keller
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 32 pages (April 1991)
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Horace the leopard is adopted by a tiger family. He sets out to look for a family that looks more like him but gets homesick and returns to his adoptive family, realising how much they love each other.
How I Was Adopted : Samantha's Story, by Joanna Cole, Maxie Chambliss (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover (September 1995)
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Samantha tells her favourite story, about how she was adopted. She explains how "I did not grow inside Mommy's uterus. I grew in another woman's uterus".
Journey Home, by Lawrence McKay, Dom Lee (Illustrator), Keunhee Lee
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 32 pages (April 1998)
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Mai is excited about traveling to Vietnam with her mother. Mom wants to search for her birth family, who disappeared during the Vietnam War, and Mai wants to help solve the mystery. Mai has never been to her mother's homeland, and she wonders what being there will reveal about her mother, herself, and the father she never knew. Will learning about her mother's past help her gain a new sense of identity? Is her "real" home in America or Vietnam?
A Koala for Katie : An Adoption Story, by Jonathan London, Cynthia Jabar (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding, (September 1993)
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As four-year-old Katie and her parents visit the zoo, Katie wonders aloud where babies come from. She knows that she is adopted and wonders if the baby koala could be happy with a new mommy. This simple, warm story and charming full-color illustrations combine to make the perfect adoption story for young children.
Let's Talk About It : Adoption (First Experiences), by Fred Rogers, Jim Judkis
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Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover (May 1995)
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Addresses the questions asked by many adopted children, such as why their birthparents gave them up and how they can find security in an adopted family.
Lucy's Feet, by Stephanie Stein, Kathryn A. Imler
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover (November 1996)
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A serious but warm story of adoption thru the eye of a child Lucy's Feet has been called a "zany, yet touching look at adoption." Lucy is a spunky girl who plays soccer and loves to pirouette at ballet class, but who has some very real and important questions about being adopted. Her family struggles to help her come to terms with some tough (but age appropriate) issues, and ultimately help Lucy with love, patience and humor (not to mention red toe-nail polish!) BUT you don't have to be adopted to love (and identify with) Lucy.
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid, by Walter Dean Myers
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Paperback Reissue edition (January 1991)
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Three orphans try to make their greatest wishes come true with a little luck and a lot of teamwork in this warm-hearted, funny story by Newbery Honor-winning author Walter Dean Myers.
An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey, by Stephan Molnar-Fenton (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 32 pages 1 edition (April 1998)
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Six year old An Mei, adopted from China, tells this story of her journey to be with her new family in America.
Missing Sisters, By Gregory MacGuire
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Paperback 164 pages Reprint edition (June 1998)
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Alica Colossus is a 12 year old girl bought up in a Catholic orphanage in New York. She has both hearing and speech impediments and when her best friend and mentor, Sister Vincent, is injured she goes looking for her. A chance discovery leads her to her unknown twin sister, adopted by a family in Albany.
A Mother for Choco, by Keiko Kasza
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding (March 1992)
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A bright and cheery story about a little, yellow bird, Choco, looking for a mother. Mrs bear asks ``If you had a mommy, what would she do?''And since she's quite able to hold him and kiss him, he's soon the new member of her happy family, realising that feelings are what counts, not appearances
The Mulberry Bird : An Adoption Story, by Anne Braff Brodzinsky, Diana L. Stanley (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Paperback 47 pages Revised edition, (November 1996)
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Although she loves her baby very much, a young mother bird gives him up for adoption because she is unable to give him the home which he needs.
My Real Family, by Emily Arnold McCully
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Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover (May 1994)
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McCully's latest story about a troupe of performing bears sees Sarah, the youngest bear, feeling jelous and left out when her family plan to adopt Blanche, the orphan sheep. Sarh thinks that she is adopted and sets out to find her 'real' family, only to get lost in the woods. She realises how much her family love her when they come searching for her.
Our Baby : A Birth and Adoption Story, by Janice Koch, Pat Goldberg, Patricia J. Goldberg
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 28 pages Revised edition
Our Baby from China : An Adoption Story, by Nancy D'Antonio
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding (March 1997)
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This book is laid out in photo album style and tells the story of the adoption of little Xiangwei (SHAN-way) from China
Over the Moon : An Adoption Tale, By Karen Katz
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding 32 pages (September 1997)
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A happy, colourful book about a couple dreaming about their soon-to-be-adopted baby. The message is given `Forever and always we will be your mommy and daddy. Forever and always you will be our child.'' . Beautifully illustrated and tastefully written. Based on Karen Katz experience of adopting a child from Guatemala.
Pablo's Tree, by Pat Mora, Cecily Lang (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Baby-Preschool, School & Library Binding 32 pages (September 1994)
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Abuelito planted a tree when Pablo was adopted and every year he decorates it for his birthday. What will he decorate it with this year? A lovely story of the special relationship between Grandfather and Grandson in this hispanic family.
Real Sisters, by Susan Wright, Bo-Kim Louie (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Paperback (April 1995)
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Claire is adopted and when she moves schools the children tease her saying that Jenny isn't her 'real' sister. In the end Jenny and Claire confront the problem together, just like real sisters.
The Snake-Stone, by Berlie Doherty
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Mass Market Paperback, 176 pages Reprint edition (March 1998)
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15 year old James has to come to terms with his adoption. Found abandoned as a baby, he has little information on his birth family. After a journey of self-discovery he returns home to his loving adoptive family with a new sense of completeness.
A Sudden Change of Family, by Mary Jane Auch
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Paperback Reprint edition (June 1993)
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For Katy, summertime means going out to Whitemarsh Point to visit her grandparents. But this year, Katy finds out that her mom was adopted and her mom drags Katy off to find her "real" family. Katy learns that being a "family" means more than just blood relationships and that love and responsibility can be just as important.
Tall Boy's Journey, by Joanna Halpert Kraus, Karen Ritz (Illustrator)
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(Middle-Grade Fiction), Reading level: Ages 9-12, Library Binding 47 pages (November1992)
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When Kim Moo Yong, a Korean orphan boy, is adopted by an American couple and makes the long journey by plane to their house, he finds it a strange and terrifying experience, until he begins to adjust to his new life.
Tell Me Again : About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover (September 1996)
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"Tell me again about the night I was born," begs a little girl, then proceeds to tell the story herself. She relates the story of how her parents adopted her and the feelings of joy they experienced at her arrival.
Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies, by Ann Turner, James Graham Hale (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Library Binding 31 pages 1st Ed. edition (April 1990)
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A little boy is scared as he journeys on a plane to the land of his adoptive parents. What will his new life be like? The mother and father he's known only through pictures greet him at the airport and take him to be with them forever, in this tender story of adoption and love.
Tuck Triumphant, by Theodore Taylor
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Paperback Reprint edition (September 1996)
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Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf.
Two Birthdays for Beth, by Gay Lynn Cronin, Joanne Bowring
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover (February 1995)
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After waiting for months for a second birthday celebration because she is adopted, a young girl is initially disappointed, until she realizes how lucky she is. Beth is adopted into a an African-American single parent adoptive family.
We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo, by Linda Walvoord Girard, Linda Shute (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, School & Library Binding 32 pages, (March 1989)
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Nine-year-old Benjamin Koo Andrews, adopted from Korea as an infant, describes what it's like to grow up adopted from another country.
William Is My Brother, by Jane T. Schnitter
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 29 pages (April 1991)
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Two young brothers are the same in many ways except that one was born into the family and the other was adopted.
Youn Hee & Me, By C. S. Adler
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Hardcover 183 pages (April 1995)
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Caitlin finds out that bringing her adopted Korean brother's eleven-year-old sister into their home requires patience and understanding, but gradually they become a real family.
Zachary's New Home : A Story for Foster and Adopted Children, by Paul B. Blomquist, Geraldine Molettiere Blomquist, Margo LeMieux
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Reading level: Baby-Preschool, Hardcover 32 pages (January 1991)
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Zachary is a little, sad, kitten whose parents failed to look after him. He finds a new home with a pair of geese, with the help of his kangaroo social worker.
Zoe and Columbo, by Susan Richards Shreve, Gregg Thorkelson (Illustrator)
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Reading level: Ages 9-12, Hardcover 96 pages (October 1995)
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Sharing so much in common that they think of themselves as twins, Zoe and her brother, Columbo, move to a new town just before their ninth birthdays, but Columbo wants to hide the fact that he is really adopted.
Brian Was Adopted by Doris E. Sanford, Graci Evans
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Reading level: Ages 4-8, Hardcover 27 pages (August 1989)
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A boy who was adopted from Korea as an infant describes his new life in America and the love he receives from his new parents.
Seeds of Love : For Brothers and Sisters of International Adoption, by Jill Chambers (Illustrator), Mary Ebejer Petertyl
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Hardcover (May 1997)
Review: by the author
A special "friend" for children who stay at home When my husband and I were preparing to travel internationally to adopt our daughter Anna, I worried about how our four-year-old daughter Carly would handle our extended separation. I looked for, but could not find, a book like Seeds of Love. As a professional writer and editor, I naturally felt compelled to address this void in the children's adoption literature and Seeds of Love was born!
