The Adoption Book of the day for today is “Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born” by Jamie Lee Curtis! In this beautifully written children’s book, a young girl asks her parents about the night she was born, a story that she knows by heart. Through colorful pictures and artful words, this girl’s
Continue reading »The Adoption Book of the Day for Today is “The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant” by Dan Savage! “The Kid” tells the thrilling story of Dan and Terry as they traverse the journey of domestic, open adoption in the 1990’s. Using his experience as a writer, Dan
Continue reading »The Adoption Book of the Day for today is the “The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Advocate Family” by Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas C. Atwood A broad range of adoption topics are touched upon in this book including building a child’s emotional connection to his parents. The books points
Continue reading »The Adoption Book of the Day for today is “Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence” by Danea Gorbett! This book is one of a select few in existence that is targeted for an audience of adopted adolescence. The teenage years are hard as it is, and many times issues that adoptees face come
Continue reading »The Adoption Book of the Day for today is “Lucy’s Family Tree” by Karen Halvorsen Schreck! This children’s book tells the story of a young girl named Lucy, who is given an assignment from her teacher at school to start a family tree. Lucy’s classmates tease her about the assignment, saying that she can not
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The Adoption Book of the Day for today is “Growing Up Black in White” by Kevin D. Hofmann! Kevin Hofmann, a bi-racial adult adoptee, discusses the frustrations he experienced in addressing his minority status as a child in his memoir, “Growing up Black in White.” Hofmann’s experiences revolve around issues of race in dramatic ways,
Continue reading »The Adoption Book of the Day for today is “Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow” by Gregory C. Keck, PhD., and Regina Kupecky, LSW. Thank you Michele Fried, founder and CEO of Adoption STAR, for this great description and review! Dr. Foster Cline introduces this book as not simply a parenting
Continue reading »The Adoption Book of the Day for today is “And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. This revolutionary children’s book tells the tale of Roy and Silo, two male, chinstrap penguins, as they build a family in the Central Park Zoo. This heartwarming story of two penguins that fall in love describes
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Happy November 4th! The Tapestry Books Adoption Book of the Day for today is “The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child” by Nancy Newton Verrier. Nancy Verrier derived the idea behind this book from her Master’s Degree thesis, entitled “The Primal Wound: Legacy of the Adopted Child”. She then grew the concept into the great
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