What are some good adoption story books to read to your adopted children?

Question

My favorite that I have right now is called "A Blessing from Above". Is there any other ones that are really good? Also, my son is Black/Mexican. Does anybody know any story books that are geared towards the Black or Mexican culture?

Answer 1

Always hated fairy tales.

Answer 2

I like "A Mother For Choco" by Keiko Kasza.

And Stellaluna.

Answer 3

A great book is "All the Colors" by Sheila Hamanaka. It's a picture book of a poem about all kinds of different skin colors, hair texture, and love. It goes something like this (per my very poor memory):

Children come in all the colors

of the Earth and sky and sea

Children come in all the colors

in endless shades of you and me

The roaring browns of bears and soaring eagles

The whispering golds of late summer grasses

The crackling russets of fallen leaves

The tinkling pinks of tiny seashells by the rumbling sea

Children come with hair like bouncy baby lambs

Or hair flows like water

Or hair that curls like sleeping cats in snoozy cat colors

For love comes in cinnamon, walnut, and wheat

It's amber and ivory and ginger and sweet

Like caramel and chocolate and the honey of bees

Dark as leopard spots, light as sand

Children come in all the colors

of the Earth and sky and sea

It's not about culture, but its great for multi-colored families. I'm white, my husband is Filipino, and our daughter is African American.

Answer 4

Check out "Tell me again about the night I was born" by Jamie Lee Curtis.  It's a great book, for infant adoptions.

Otherwise check out Amazon.com and search for adoption books.  There's a ton to choose from and they all have book reviews that you can check out and see if you'd like it.

Answer 5

I never read any adoption books to my son.  I honestly didn't see the fact that I hadn't give birth to him as something requiring a book.  I talked to him about it and presented the facts/reality in a way I thought was most appropropriate, depending on how old he was.

What I did do was repeat stories I'd heard on the news about animals of one species adopting a baby animal of a different species.  I'd point out to him how in Nature adoptions happen too.

He's grown now, but just to make the point:  In the last month I saw a story of a dog that adopted a baby squirrel.  Just the other day there was a story of a dog that adopted a kitten.

When you have Nature writing the adoption stories (and news people telling them) you don't always need an author's version of adoption being presented to your child.   :)