Books That Talk About Adoption:

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis  
This book features an adopted girl who repeatedly asks her parents to tell her the story about the night she was born. Her parents go on to explain in detail the excitement of their adoption process and how much they loved and cared for her.

 

The Tummy Mummy by Michelle Madrid-Branch  
This book features the journey of a birthmother who is led by an owl. The story includes the emotions and thoughts of both birthmothers and adoptive parents.

 

Adoption is for Always by Linda Walvoord Girard  
This book features a young girl, Celia, who begins to develop concerns regarding her adoption. Her concerns vary from why her birth parents gave her up to if they would take her away from her adoptive family. Along with answering Celia's questions, her adoptive family emphasizes that her birth parents loved her and that she will always be loved by her adoptive family.

 

Horace by Holly Keller  
This story features an adopted leopard, Horace, whose parents are tigers. Horace experiences discomfort worrying about the fact that he has spots unlike his parents who have stripes. He runs away to find a family whose looks resemble his, but once he has done so, he realizes that he belongs with his tiger parents whom he loves.

 

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