https://www.ouradoptionbooks.com/blogs daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://www.ouradoptionbooks.com/blogs/adoptee-top-kids-book-picks monthly 0.5 2023-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/d17c0ce6-4b44-4960-beab-fbdd4769b1ee/What+Makes+Us+a+Family.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Great for transracial adoption. Does an excellent job of walking through family differences across many different families. Showing differences, love, and understanding throughout the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/13828b62-fd59-4636-bb86-00213201fbba/Love+without+Wings.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books A must have for LGBTQ+ adoptive parent households! It’s a magical fairytale with two royal fathers. It with capture adoptees imaginations and educate them on adoption as well. Birth mom is a beautiful fairy both illustrated and written about in a positive light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/9060068e-6125-4415-8684-a9bc9718f44d/Tell+Me+Again+About+the+Night+I+was+Bown.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books This book is a classic. It’s been around now for years. It’s captivating for kids and helps to show the adoptive parent excitement around the birth and adoption of young adoptee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/c514ec2e-bfa6-4485-8c1f-dda8c6fa1b46/Front+Cover_Final.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books A lovely book that celebrates open adoption. The birth mom is a main character and shown in the book equally with the adoptive parents. Book is balanced showing the love from both the birth mom and adoptive parents to the young adoptee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/49347ae2-2d29-4557-b5af-aac90c3b0b6a/The+ABCs+of+Adoption.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Educational and factual alphabet book that walks through common adoption terminology from A to Z using current positive adoption language and imagery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/246b0846-8a68-47a4-a464-5506a052b6a3/Rotated.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/fb5c2e07-1194-41f0-93e3-a0f1e89ea8d6/Mallory+Mouse.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books This adorable book discusses adoption from foster care in a thoughtful, sensitive, and loving manner. It shows the love of the birth mom, foster family, and adoptive parents through a cute mouse’s story. It’s a great way to explain adoption from foster care while including the role of the foster family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/e2a1b99a-805e-4180-8351-1e4add3fb46e/Tell+Me+My+Story.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Walks through a typical conversation that an adoptee might ask their adoptive parent with sweet, kind, and loving responses. Great for educating a young adoptee especially if they do not tend to ask many questions about their adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/8b380e58-1c24-417d-9a1d-85101bc52c1b/The+Story+of+You.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Sweet story about two mothers connect to each other through adoption in their love for the baby. This book does a great job of portraying both the birth mom and adoptive mom in a positive light. Would be ideal for a single mom adoptive parent, but great for all adoptive parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/3b02b3d4-d8d9-47b5-8d53-89b6db09c713/Adoption+is+Both.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Perfect!! All adoptees should have this on their shelf growing up. It opens conversations and lets young adoptees know that it is okay to have mixed emotions about adoption. By an adoptive parent reading this to their child it builds a bond that allows the adoptee to feel more open about how they are feeling with their parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/49f85be2-03b3-411a-b61b-3f3c118135a0/Ive+Loved+You+Since+Forever.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Beautiful book! While it does not come out and say that it is an adoption book, it does a good job of showing the immense amount of love from the parent to the child. This is great for any household and let’s be honest, who doesn’t love Hoda Kotb! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/dd3e088c-3720-4cee-a7d5-efa84467083c/Marie+Discovers+her+SuperPowers.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Tackles the tough topics that an adoptee often brings home to their adoptive parent, that are difficult to address. This book can help give adoptive parents some tricks for how to handle this tough moments when kids saying insensitive or hurtful things to your adoptee. It’s a great resource directly from an adoption therapist professional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/e55ea8fd-1a6b-45fa-ab8a-9a29a7a23b49/Front+Cover-MFAdoption.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Finally education for non-adopted kids! A good resource for children, that are not adopted, to better understand adoption. This book is trying to take the “heavy lift” off of young adoptees needing to explain and teach friends/family about adoption. Great for any parent trying to teach their child about diverse families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/944fa670-2673-48b0-94e4-9111f051239b/Welcome+Little+One.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books Not an adoption education book, but similar to the book above, it does a good job showing how welcomed and loved this child is in their family. It does not mention adoption, but is very applicable around showing how excited everyone is for the new child to join the family. Good idea for a baby gift for new adoptive parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/43ebf8ec-e42f-4cef-932d-9bf17b516634/Being+Adopted.jpg Blogs - An Adoptee’s Top 14 Children’s Adoption Books This book covers SO many different types of adoption (i.e., LGBTQ+, transracial, international, closed, open, foster care, etc.). If you are wanting to education your adoptee on all types of adoption or if you are struggling to find a book that highlights your adoption situation, this is a great book. https://www.ouradoptionbooks.com/blogs/adoptee-written-kids-book monthly 0.5 2023-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/0069b133-945b-44a6-8102-4372477bbf50/Front+Cover-MFAdoption.jpg Blogs - Children’s Adoption Books Written by Adoptees Finally education for non-adoptee kids! A good resource for children, that are not adopted, to better understand adoption. This book is trying to take the “heavy lift” off of young adoptees needing to explain and teach friends/family about adoption. Great for any parent trying to teach their child about diverse families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/769d72e1-e93d-4e35-8651-82c3cbf86945/Casey+Conquers+Bedtime.jpg Blogs - Children’s Adoption Books Written by Adoptees This book helps to address bedtime concerns for adoptees with a transracial adoptee as the main character. Dr. Chaitra is great about helping give tips to adoptive parents on how to tackle various topics around adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/795e3d90-489e-4288-aad2-20d2d8e4d20a/Front+Cover_Final.jpg Blogs - Children’s Adoption Books Written by Adoptees A lovely book that celebrates open adoption. The birth mom is a main character and shown in the book equally with the adoptive parents. Book is balanced showing the love from both the birth mom and adoptive parents to the young adoptee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/f227a412-d495-4b1b-b14e-3cd112848a65/Adoption+is+Both.jpg Blogs - Children’s Adoption Books Written by Adoptees Perfect!! All adoptees should have this on their shelf growing up. It opens conversations and lets young adoptees know that it is okay to have mixed emotions about adoption. By an adoptive parent reading this to their child it builds a bond that allows the adoptee to feel more open about how they are feeling with their parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/c0130741-c36c-486d-9a1b-f237a38ae64f/Marie+Discovers+her+SuperPowers.jpg Blogs - Children’s Adoption Books Written by Adoptees Tackles the tough topics that an adoptee often brings home to their adoptive parent, that are difficult to address. This book can help provide adoptees and their caregivers with strategies for responding in empowering ways. It’s a great resource directly from an adoptee and adoption therapist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/e6e40502-13df-4771-9959-0a8d6e051168/Being+Adopted.jpg Blogs - Children’s Adoption Books Written by Adoptees This book covers SO many different types of adoption (i.e., LGBTQ+, transracial, international, closed, open, foster care, etc.). 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Whether you're an adoptive parent, a teacher, a counselor, or simply someone who believes in love without limits, this book will spark conversations, build understanding, and provide comfort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/17adfeb4-6cbc-463e-8d84-a9ce60b6ef0c/Front+and+Back.png Books - Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story Written by Allison Olson and Illustrated by Darlee Urbiztondo This modern take on the "where did you come from" adoption book celebrates open adoption. Through words and illustrations, the characters express the immense amount of love that everyone involved in the process has for the adoptee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/ca9bfc22-3889-448d-9142-c899c5a866f5/Front+and+Back+Cover.png Books - Learning About My Friend’s Adoption: An Open Adoption Story Written by Allison Olson and Illustrated by Darlee Urbiztondo This gentle story is helpful in educating young friends or family members of an adoptee about open adoption. Through kind words and beautiful illustrations, the characters ask—and answer—some of the adoption-related questions children often ask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/f0e6e81a-f66b-42b0-ba32-e487143a49be/Mallory+Mouse+3D+hardcover+front+and+back.png Books - The Tale of Mallory Mouse Written by Laura Khoury and Illustrated by Hannah Rhodes Mallory Mouse may be tiny, but she captures hearts in a big way during her journey through foster care. 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It comes up so often and even crept into our conversation, so we wanted to share how we discussed it and how we handle it with strangers as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/aa12205a-db6a-4d6d-aa7e-fdd99ddc86dc/Advice+for+Hopeful+Adoptive+Parents+-+Allison+%28small%29.png YouTube Channel As an adoptee, an adoptive parent, and a children's adoption book author hopeful adoptive parents often reach out with questions. Listen to the part II version of this discussion where Allison answers her additional advice she gives to perspective/waiting adoptive parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/9e8f7ba6-7eb5-40d6-80ea-db53dd8cc6fc/Advice+for+Hopeful+Adoptive+Parents+-+Laura+%28small%29.png YouTube Channel As an adoptive mom and a children's adoption book author, Laura often gets asked questions from hopeful adoptive parents. 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Allison in an adoptee and adoptive parent. Laura is an adoptive parent of two girls. Listen as they walk through why they were inspired to write their books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/80f8cb34-b662-4314-b10e-e4af159f0fd4/Allison+Adoption+Story+of+Being+an+Adoptee.png YouTube Channel Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, adoptee and adoptive parent, discuss adoption. In this clip Allison shares her own story of adoption when she was young. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/fec9e8fe-acf3-44ac-9c3f-d97169d88111/Allison+When+I+wrote+the+Book.png YouTube Channel Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, in a discussion around adoption. Allison Olson walks through when she wrote the story Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/cd19cddf-e456-4596-8cd9-a41e849991b8/Laura+Adoption+Story+of+Becoming+an+Adoptive+Parent.png YouTube Channel Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. This clip is Laura explaining her own adoption story of what brought her and her family to adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/88fa6f51-1f13-47f6-a13f-2cf9f336bd86/Laura+When+I+Wrote+the+Book.png YouTube Channel Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, in a discussion around adoption. In this clip, Laura walks through when she wrote her took The Tale of Mallory Mouse: From Foster Care to Adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/5f33e1ec-3730-4a31-b390-ae4a5970d067/Cecilia%27s+Adoption+Story.png YouTube Channel In this clip Laura talks about her side of her youngest daughter's adoption story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/b99e3b31-043d-4d2a-ba3b-5c783cfeb781/Finding+an+Illustrator+-+Laura.png YouTube Channel In this clip Laura talks about how she found the illustrator for her book The Tale of Mallory Mouse: From Foster Care to Adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/2e2e9830-dd54-46da-bf96-655a836752c0/Finding+an+Illustrator+-+Allison.png YouTube Channel In this clip Allison talks about how she found her illustrator for Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/453ffd45-c3b2-4d36-a6e3-8b4a64fd2b4d/Adoptive+Parent+Story+-+Allison.png YouTube Channel In this clip Allison talks about her experience and around how she became an adoptive parent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e90d55e0ca732149fa9e31/6de79be1-e7b3-44d2-a3b4-2d046114656e/Raising+Biological+and+Adopted+Children+-+Allison.png YouTube Channel Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. 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