Hello there! Down below are some of excellent reading recommendations for you. If you have any questions or commentary, please feel free to contact Patti.

• Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror, by Karen Springs

• In their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell their Stories, by Rita Simon & Rhonda Roorda

• Attachment in Adoption, and also Nurturing Adoption, by Deborah Gray

• The Power of Showing Up, by Daniel Siegel

• Wounded Children, Healing Homes; How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families,, by Jayne Schooler, Betsy Smalley and Timothy Callahan

• Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families, by Patricia Johnston

• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction, by Sharon Roszia & Allison Davis Maxon.

• The Connected Child; and The Connected Parent, by Karyn Purvis

• Trying Differently Rather Than Trying Harder, by Diane Malbin

• The Accomplice, by Melissa Jacobus

• The Whole Brain Child, by Daniel Siegel

• Beneath the Mask, by Debbie Riley and John Meeks