Recommend children's books about adoption

jillianmb

On my to-do list this month is to start building my library of children's books that talk about adoption.  I've found a few via Amazon but it is so hard to tell which ones are the best without reading them.  Any recommendations?

We are adopting from Russia so special points for talking about coming from an orphanage/overseas, however I am also a daycare provider and am hoping to use these books to teach all my little ones about the different ways families are built.  So really any book that talks about adoption (foster care/domestic/international) is great.  

Looking for stories appropriate for 1-5 year olds. 

Thanks! 

summergirl79

Our fav is "I Wished for You" by Marianne Richmond (love her books):

https://www.amazon.com/Wished-You-Adoption-Recipient-Creative/dp/1934082066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329092650&sr=8-1 

Sally J

A Mother For Choco

Happy Adoption Day 

Ms Spider Patch Friends 

inlovewithB

summergirl79:

Our fav is "I Wished for You" by Marianne Richmond (love her books):

https://www.amazon.com/Wished-You-Adoption-Recipient-Creative/dp/1934082066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329092650&sr=8-1 

This is our favorite too! 

sw_in_kc

These are the ones we have:

God Found Us You: https://www.amazon.com/God-Found-Us-You-HarperBlessings/dp/0061131768/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329098744&sr=8-2

Little Miss Spider: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Miss-Spider-David-Kirk/dp/0439083893/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329098802&sr=1-1

A Mother for Choco: https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Choco-Paperstar-Keiko-Kasza/dp/0698113640/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329098838&sr=1-1

Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born: https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Again-About-Night-Born/dp/0064435814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329098866&sr=1-1

ycristina84

"I love you like crazy cakes" is about an adoption from china. Very beautiful. 

babywisher

We LOVE Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born. We also like A Blessing from Above (A Little Golden Book.)

jillianmb

Thanks ladies! I am putting all these in my amazon cart!

silliestbunny

We just purchased Todd Parr's book this weekend.  DD1 loves a Todd Parr book we had about hair so we thought it would be a good starting point and it is.  For whatever reason, she's very attracted to the pics (she's 14 months old).

We also like All Together Now.  It is a super sweet story about a family that doesn't look like one another.  Good for adoption.

Art Teacher

Todd Parr's We Belong Together (A book about adoption) and The Family Book - both are great.  (We actually have about 6 or 7 of his books - dd loves them!)

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

Over the Moon -- just read that this afternoon!

A Blessing from Above

A Mother For Choco

Horace

I Wished For You

 

 

CaptainSerious

Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies is another good one that talks about coming home for international adoption.