February 18, 2013
Children’s Books about Adoption
We’ve raised our two adopted children with the knowledge that they are adopted. It is something we are proud of and want them to be proud of, so it is a conversation that has stayed open and honest as they’ve gotten older. It’s easier for them to understand certain things with time, but when your children are younger, it can be more difficult to explain the concept of adoption, how loving it is and why their family was created differently than others. To help open up these conversations we would often turn to children’s books. They are digestible for kids, written from the perspective of a child and developed to communicate big ideas in a simple way – perfect for introducing the adoption world to your little one.
We wanted to share a list of our very favorite adoption-related children’s books with you. So take a look, and maybe one of these will become your child’s favorite!
We Belong Together: A brightly illustrated book about all the different ways families come together. Perfect for exploring diversity and different relationships with your little one!
Sweet Moon Baby: An Adoption Tale: This book is great for international adoption. It’s about a little girl who travels from China to her adoptive parents, who are dreaming of the wonderful life they could give her. This book really celebrates adoption as a journey, and we love that it shows how much the adoptive parents want her and have been thinking about her.
Happy Adoption Day!: A celebration of adoption and directed towards children, sharing through verse how loved and wanted adopted children are by their parents.
I Wished for You: An Adoption Story: We love how straightfoward this book is. It’s about Barley Bear and his mom as they sit together and he asks many of the questions children have about adoption while she answers them all. Loving and informative.
God Found Us You: This is a wonderful book that introduces the concept of adoption to little ones via a conversation between a little fox and his mother. She talks about how long she waited for him and how much she wanted him, even answering questions about his birth mother.
What are your favorite adoption books to share with your children?
