Adoption Books: The Family Puzzle written by Rosemary Lucas
If you’ve been a reader of the magazine for a while, you’ll know how much I love using books to help explain difficult topics with our girls. One of the first adoption books we read with our eldest daughter was The Family Fairies written by Rosemary Lucas. She loved the book (she now reads it […]
Seven Adoption books for kids
When we started our adoption journey, there weren’t many children’s books about that explained the process. The ones I did find were American and obviously the system is very different there. I’ve been delighted to see that over the last few years, there’s been a number of great adoption books written by adoptive parents as […]
Book review: Eddy Finds a Family written by Sarah McGeough
I love doing reviews of new adoption books. There’s so many more books available now than when we started our journey. Many are written by adoptive parents who are putting pen to paper to create a resource to help their children understand adoption. I was really excited when Sarah McGeough got in touch to introduce […]
Book review: “So You’ve Adopted a Sibling” written by Holly Marlow
However it happens, becoming a big brother or sister is a massive change for a child. Moving from having their parent’s undivided attention to having to share them with another child can be hard. This can be even harder when the younger sibling comes into the family via adoption. They arrive having already lived somewhere […]