Selected Bibliography Of Children's Books About Adoption

• THE FACE IN THE MIRROR, TEENAGERS TALK ABOUT ADOPTION by Marion Crook
• THE UGLY DUCKLING, Hans Christian Anderson (L. B. Cauley). Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 179 (5 to 8 years)
• THAT'S ONE ORNERY ORPHAN, Patricia Beatty. William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, 1980. (8 years and over)
• A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON, M. Bond. Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958. (5 to 8 years)
• THE MULBERRY BIRD: STORY OF AN ADOPTION, Anne Braff Brodzinsky. Perspective Press, Fort Wayne, Indiana,1986 (4 to 7)
• IS THAT YOUR SISTER?, Catherine Bunin and Sherry Bunin. Pantheon Books, New York, 1976. (7 and over)
• ABBY, Jeannette Caines. Harper & Row, New York, 1973. (3 to 8 years)
• OUR BABY: A BIRTH AND ADOPTION STORY, Janice Koch. Perspectives Press, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1986. (5 to 8 years) Previously titled Our Adopted Baby
• ANOTHER MOUSE TO FEED, Robert Kraus. Windmill Wanderer Books, New York, 1980. (4 to 8 years)
• PIPPI LONGSTOCKING, A. Lindgren. Viking Press, New York, 1950. (9 to 13 years)
• WHY WAS I ADOPTED:, Carole Livingston. Lyle Stuart, Inc., New Jersey, 1978. (9 and over)
• ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, L. M. Montgomery. Bantam Books, New York, 1979 (First published in 1908) (11 and older)
• EDGAR ALLAN, John Neufeld. New American Library, New York, 1968.
• THE ADOPTION EXPERIENCE, Steven Nickman. Julian Messner, New York, 1985.
• SO YOU'RE ADOPTED, F. Powledge. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1982.
• BEING ADOPTED, Maxine B. Rosenberg. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York, 1984. (5 to 12 years)
• LIVING IN TWO WORLDS, Maxine B. Rosenberg. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York, 1986. (6 to 14 years)
• WHY AM I DIFFERENT?, Norma Simon. Albert Whitman & Company, Niles, Illinois, 1976. (4 to 8 years)
• WE DON'T LOOK LIKE OUR MOM AND DAD, Harriet L. Sobel. Coward-McMann, New York, 1984. (8 to 15 years)
• AND I'M STUCK WITH JOSEPH, Susan Sommer. Herald Press, Scottsdale, Pennsylvania, 1984. (8 to 12 years)
• THE ADOPTED ONE: An Open Family Book for Parents and Children Together , Sara B. Stein. Walker and Company, New York, 1979. (3 to 8 years)
• FAMILIES, Meredith Tax. Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Boston, 1981. (4 to 8 years)
• SUSAN AND GORDON ADOPT A BABY by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, 1992. (2 to 8 years)
• THE DAY WE MET YOU by Phoebe Koehler, 1990. (0 to 5 years)
• A FAMILY FOR JAMIE by Suzanne Bloom, 1991. (2 to 8 years)
• TOGETHER FOREVER: An Adoption Coloring Book, by Sara L.F. Barris and Doryce
  Penn Seltzer, 1977. (2 to 8 years)
• THE CHOSEN BABY, by Valentina P. Wasson
• WHERE THE SUN KISSES THE SEA by Susan L. Gabel
• ZACHARY'S NEW HOME A Story For Foster and Adopted Children, by Geraldine M. Blomquist and Paul Blomquist
• A FOREVER FAMILY by Roslyn Banish with Jennifer Jordan-Wong
• THROUGH MOON AND STARS AND STARS AND NIGHT SKIES by Ann Turner
• BRIAN WAS AOPTED by Doris Sanford
• HORACE by Holly Keller, 1991. (2 to 8 years)
• A MOTHER FOR CHOO by Keiko Kasza, 1992. (2 to 8 years)
• LUCY'S FEET by Stephanie Stein, 1992. (4 to 12 years)
• CHINESE EYES by Marjorie A. Waybill, 1974 (2 to 8 years)
• REAL FOR SURE SISTER by Ann Angel
• AOPTION IS FOR ALWAYS by Linda Walvoord Girardi
• BECKY'S SPECIAL FAMILY by Kathy Sly
• "HOW BABIES AND FAMILIES ARE MADE" by Patricia Schaffer
• "FILLING IN THE BLANKS" by Susan Gabel
• SUPPORTING AN AOPTION by Pat Holmes
• WHO IS DAVID? by Evelyn Nerlove
• ONCE UPON A TIME by Eleanora Patterson
• MAKING BABIES by Sarah Bonnett Stein (Ages 3 and up)
• WE ADOPTED YOU BENJAMIN KOO by Linda Walbord Gerard
• THE BOY WHO WANTED A FAMILY by Shirley Gordon
• HOW IT FEELS TO BE AOPTED by Jill Krementz
  
• GROWING UP AOPTED by Maxine Rosenberg (Lothrop, 1984)

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