It is that time of year again! In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, Tapestry Books with be highlighting a particular adoption book or resource each day throughout the entire month of November. Stay tuned every day to find out which great adoption book should be your next read! The Adoption Book of the Day for Monday, November 2nd “The Mulberry Bird” by Anne Braff Brodzinsky. First published in 1986, this classic adoption tale was one of the first children’s books that focused primarily on adoption themes. Brodzinsky tells the story of a young and single mother mulberry bird who is struggling to raise her baby. This wonderfully written book

Tapestry Books makes it easy to own this wonderful documentary, a worthy addition to any adoptive family’s DVD collection. “I Have Roots and Branches” is particularly valuable for prospective and current adoptive parents because it features adoptees of varying ages describing first-hand how it feels to have been adopted. The commentary from the adoptees provides insight into the common experiences that they’ve had growing up in their homes, surrounded by the families they know and love. The film conveys a positive, encouraging and honest message about adoption. The film also has great potential value for adoptees….especially children. There is no doubt that adopted children who are in the midst of

October 15th is an important annual day of remembrance for families that have experienced pregnancy loss or infant death. October has been proclaimed as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy and parts of Australia. As per the Remembering Our Babies website, President Ronald Reagan was the first United States President to acknowledge the month by issuing a proclamation in 1998 which stated, “When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, there isn’t a word to describe them. This

In the adoption world, one often hears about the importance of attachment and attachment-focused therapy. From a literature perspective, there are dozens of non-fiction resources that explain what is attachment, describe techniques for attachment therapy, and highlight specific attachment-focused counselors. However, very few books exist that tell a personal experience of attachment disorders in adopted children and discuss the attachment-focused therapy, or lack thereof, that occurred. “The Girl Behind the Door” is a tragic and emotional account of author John Brooks as his 17 year-old daughter, who was adopted internationally, decided to end her life. This book shares Brooks’s experience as he searches for the answers surrounding his daughter’s suicide

Author and adoptive mother Sally Bacchetta writes about a variety of adoption-related issues from an adoptive parent’s perspective, including thoughts on her child’s birth family. Back in 2010, Sally Bacchetta wrote a book entitled ‘What I Want My Adopted Child to Know: An Adoptive Parent’s Perspective‘. It’s a book that’s noteworthy for its straightforward honesty, and the ten chapters that make up the book cover a lot of ground in just a bit over 100 pages of text. We found Sally’s writing to be very poignant, and we’d like to share some of her thoughts regarding her child’s birth parents: “I think about your birth parents. Often. More often that

“Paloma the Possible” is a recently published children’s adoption book that has just been added to the Tapestry Books website. Below, author Gail Lauren Karp, gives some great insight on this valuable resource. “Paloma the Possible is a book that came about organically, over several years, and it continues to grow in organic ways. It originated as an ongoing project that I did with my daughter when she was small, creating characters and talking about difficult subjects — race, identity and the loss inherent in adoption — through fictionalized storytelling. Over the years it grew into oversized volumes filled with text and collage that we’d done together, and finally it

A new addition to the Tapestry Books this week is the recently published children’s adoption book, “Hi My Name is Hanna and I’m Adopted” by Angie Barton. Hear from Angie Barton herself below! “My name is Angie Barton and I am a new children’s book author. I have worked with children of all ages since 1986 as a Nanny, Sleep Specialist, Teacher, Director and Director of Education in the early childhood field. Through my experience I have come in contact with many different family make ups, including foster children and adoption. I had an opportunity to meet an amazing little girl and hear about her story, a story that became

Earlier this year, Tapestry Books added the adoption memoir “This is My Lemonade: An Adoption Story” by Robert Mulkey. Hear from the author himself below! “Relatively few books have been written by adult adoptees about the adoption journey. This book discusses my lifelong experience. It attempts to bring some sort of perspective for everyone involved in the adoption equation by sharing such miscellaneous issues as identity, acceptance and forgiveness. I never set out to be an author. Virtually everyone who heard my story over the years gave me the same response—“You should write a book”. In everyone else’s eyes, my experience was unique and fascinating, something I never considered. My

“The Easter Moose: One Family’s Journey Adopting Through Foster Care” by Catherine Marshall is a great new addition to the Tapestry Books website! Below is a brief introduction to “The Easter Moose” from the author herself, Catherine Marshall! “‘The Easter Moose‘ is not a how-to manual for those thinking about adopting children through foster care. Nor is it a cautionary tale. Many of the troublesome conditions plaguing foster adoption in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s were remedied by regulations. It is not a vendetta against social services. While there were difficulties with certain social workers and the court system, the county agency provided the necessary financial support for the