The wonderful team at Arise Cape Town update this Library List every year ahead of the Arise Adoption Conference & have given me permission to share it with you here. It’s a list of recommended reading for parents thinking about adoption as well as those who have already adopted. I’m slowly working my way through this list!
| Title | Author |
 Category: PARENTING GENERAL |
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| 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) | Tulley and Spiegler |
| Grace Based Parenting | Kimmel |
| How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk | Faber and Mazlish |
| Playful Parenting | Cohen |
| Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids | Payne and Ross |
| The 5 Love Languages of Children | Chapman |
| The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind | Siegel & Bryson |
| Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys | James and Thomas |
| NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children | Bronson & Merryman |
| Sacred Parenting | Thomas |
| Category: ADOPTIVE PARENTING |
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| Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches | Moore & Mahaney |
| Adopters on Adoption: Reflections on parenthood and children | Howe |
| Adoption Conversations | Renee Wolf |
| Attaching through love, hugs and play | Gray |
| Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents | Gray |
| Contact in Permanent Placement: Guidance for local authorities in England & Wales and Scotland | British Association for Adoption and Fostering |
| Flying Solo: A single parent’s adoption story | Wise |
| Helping Your Adopted Child: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Identity | Tripp |
| Why can’t my child behave? Empathic parenting strategies that work for adoptive and foster families | Elliott |
| Managing Difficult Behaviour: An handbook for foster carers of the under 12s | British Association for Adoption and Fostering |
| Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child | Maskew |
| Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow | Keck and Kupecky |
| Adopting the Hurt Child | Keck and Kupecky |
| Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living through the Rediscovery of Abba Father, | Cruver & more |
| Talking About Adoption (2012) | Morrison |
| Talking About Adoption to Your Adopted Child (2007) | Marjorie Morrison |
| Talking with Young Children about Adoption | Watkins and Fisher, |
| The Primal Wound | Verrier |
| Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew | Eldridge |
| We are Fostering | British Association for Adoption and Fostering |
| What to Expect When You’re Adopting | Palmer |
| Category: AUTO/BIOGRAPHY OF AN ADOPTEE |
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| Hope in a ballet shoe | De Prince |