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	A CHILD'S JOURNEY THROUGH PLACEMENT by Vera, MD Fahlberg ." From Ours (now Adoptive Families magazine) (March/April 1992)...Dr. Fahlberg's insightful, empathic, respectful, and nurturing stance toward the children, and toward the adults who are their guides on their journeys enhance the value of her practical and action-oriented suggestions for minimizing the trauma and dealing with the effects. ...ACJTP is a rich compilation of knowledge and techniques for understanding, working with, and planning for children in placement. It's successful in meeting its goals of leading readers toward informed decisions and providing a reliable reference to which readers can return when faced with questions or problems... Parents who want to help children build healthy attachments and self-esteem to minimize the risks associated with complex placement experiences will find this an important addition to their resources."
	ADOPTING AFTER INFERTILITY by Patricia Irwin Johnson Guide to help in deciding if making the commitment to building a family by adoption is right for you. Explores infertility losses, making the adoption decision and choices about what kind of child to parent, the adoption process to pursue and parenting in adoption.
	ADOPTING THE HURT CHILD: HOPE FOR FAMILIES WITH SPECIAL-NEEDS KIDS: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS by Gregory C. Keck, Regina M. Kupecky Few families wishing to adopt are able to bring home a happy and healthy infant, for most adoptions today involve emotionally wounded, older children. Presenting a comprehensive picture of all aspects of adoption, this is a beneficial guide that integrates social and psychological issues with other issues that interrupt adopted children's normal development. This updated edition includes information on foreign adoption.
	AFTER SORROW COMES JOY by Cherie Clark RECOMMENDED BY ABW STAFF Cherie Clark is a courageous, giving woman who embodies a love that transcends color, race, religion and politics. She is fiercely determined to give all children a chance in life that fate has seemingly cheated them out of. Cherie founded the International Mission of Hope, now a thriving and respected organization, funded solely by donations, which is involved in feeding and caring for children and elderly people, helping with disaster relief and reforestation, and facilitating the adoption of some 250 children every year. Cherie's group has also built a rural health care clinic in My Lai. She and most of her family currently live in Hanoi and operate child care centers throughout Viet Nam. NOTE: You can also purchase this book directly thru IMH at http://www.imh-vn.org/books.htm.
	ARE THOSE KIDS YOURS?: American Families With Children Adopted from Other Countries by Cheri Register RECOMMENDED BY ABW STAFF Explores prospective parents' making the commitment to a multi-cultural family and talks of the challenges of providing children with a proud sense of their birth culture and heritage.
	BEING ADOPTED: THE LIFELONG SEARCH FOR SELF by David Brodzinsky Combines psychological and educational theory to construct a model of the normal yet unique stages and adjustments that adoptees make as they grow from infancy to adulthood.
	FAMILY OF ADOPTION by Joyce Pavao Pavao is a nationally known family and adoption therapist who works with adoptive children and their families. Her authority and insight come from her combined experience both as a professional therapist and as an adopted child. In The Family of Adoption, Pavao describes the grief processes, dilemmas, and potentials for healing of birth mothers and adoptive parents.
	INSIDE TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION by Gail Steinberg, Beth Hall This book provides creative, confident, pro-active and provocative guidance for parents who are experienced veterans or who are considering transracial adoption for the first time. Whether through domestic or international adoption the authors offer direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races.
	HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH SEPARATION AND LOSS by Claudia Jewett Jarratt This book offers step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult who wants to help a child talk about, cope with, and recover from a loss.
	HOLDING TIME: HOW TO ELIMINATE CONFLICT, TEMPER TANTRUMS, AND SIBLING RIVALRY AND RAISE HAPPY, LOVING, SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN by Martha G., M.D. Welch, Mary Ellen Mark (Photographer), Niko Tinbergen Holding Time was developed by Dr. Welch for autistic children, and has since been shown to be remarkably successful in helping all children, including those described as "normal".
	RAISING ADOPTED CHILDREN: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina RECOMMENDED BY ABW STAFF This book covers current adoption research in child development, psychology, sociology, and medicine, while focusing on the experiences of adoptive families.
	RAISING YOUR SPIRITED CHILD: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Recently, temperament traits have come to the forefront of child development theory. In Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's first contribution is to redefine the "difficult child" as the "spirited" child, a child that is, as she says, MORE. Many people are leery about books that are too quick to "type" kids, but Kurcinka, a parent of a spirited child herself and a parent educator for 20 years, doesn't fall into that trap. Instead, she provides tools to understanding your own temperament as well as your child's. When you understand your temperamental matches--and your mismatches--you can better understand, work, live, socialize, and enjoy spirit in your child. By reframing challenging temperamental qualities in a positive way, and by giving readers specific tools to work with these qualities, Kurcinka has provided a book that will help all parents, especially the parents of spirited children, understand and better parent their children.
	RAISING YOUR SPIRITED CHILD WORKBOOK by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
	REAL PARENTS, REAL CHILDREN: PARENTING THE ADOPTED CHILD by Holly van Gulden & Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb This book offers insight into how adopted children commonly think and feel about being adopted.
	SUPPORTING AN ADOPTION by Pat Holmes Provides guidance for family and friends as they try to give support and encouragement to those who are trying to build their family through adoption.
	TALKING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN ABOUT ADOPTION by Mary Watkins Ph.D. & Susan Fisher M.D. RECOMMENDED BY ABW STAFF This book answers many questions about how children think about adoption and how they incorporate adoption into their world. It provides insights into the process of dealing with the topic of adoption with young children.
	THE LOST DAUGHTERS OF CHINA : ABANDONED GIRLS, THEIR JOURNEY TO AMERICA, AND THE SEARCH FOR A MISSING PAST by Karin Evans A chronicle of the author's journey to adopt a child from China. Through this process Evans takes a deep look at what information is available for those hoping to fill in the missing pieces of their children's histories.
	THE OPEN ADOPTION EXPERIENCE by Lois Molina & Sharon Kaplan Roszia An authoritative and reassuring guide to the issues and concerns of adoptive and birth families through all stages of the open adoption relationship.
	THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR SNOW (paperback) by Janis Cooke Newman A tale of one mother's adoption of a Russian child. Not to be used as an adoption guidebook.
	THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR SNOW (hardback) by Janis Cooke Newman A tale of one mother's adoption of a Russian child. Not to be used as an adoption guidebook.
	THE WHOLE LIFE ADOPTION BOOK by Jane E. Schooler Adoptive families face unique issues regarding attachment, adjustment and identity. This book provides encouragement and practical information to help families succeed in forming relationships.
	TODDLER ADOPTION: THE WEAVER'S CRAFT by Mary Hopkins-Best RECOMMENDED BY ABW STAFF This is a book about the journey of building family through adoption of a child between the ages of one and three. The journey begins long before the child arrives, and continues indefinitely. This book explores the decision to adopt, the preparation for adopting and the adjustment to adoption of a toddler.... The author discusses both the exquisite joys of toddler adoption and challenges that the majority of families will probably encounter.
	WHEN LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH: A GUIDE TO PARENTING CHILDREN WITH RAD-REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER by Nancy L. Thomas RECOMMENDED BY ABW STAFF Reviewer: Mary, mom to 6 from Idaho I have read many books on attachment and bonding and found this to be the most helpful. Nancy Thomas shares many concrete ways to #1--help your child improve his behavior and #2--help you maintain a loving attitude toward the child in the process. Patience, joyful living, and 'smiling eyes' can be hard when a child challenges every request, but Nancy's tips make it so much easier. My son is still quite young and his attachment issues are mild, but I am so glad to have these tools now before his behavior is 'cemented'. The book is helping us to maximize our bond to each other right now, which of course tremendously improves my son's chance for a bright future. I recommend this book to anyone who even wonders if their child might have attachment problem. Some of Nancy's tips have also been effective with my well-attached children.