Adoption Books

This is an absolutely beautiful book about the faithfulness and love of a Christian couple in deep South Georgia who have taken 18 children into their home and have raised them by the grace of God. It will bless your heart to read these stories of how God's hand led the couple to each adoption and supplied visions often before they occured. I highly recommend this book!

Winkler was one of the first in the helping professions to question the status quo, insofar as what relinquishing mothers experienced, especially long-term. His study validated what others had conveniently chosen to ignore for most of the last century.

The author was a "founding mother" of rescue in her own breed, Welsh Terriers, many years ago -- long before "rescue" was a fashionable idea. This lively, well-informed book will help first(or tenth!)- time rescuers get an idea what to expect from a rescue dog, whether it is a purebred or a mutt.

This is an absolutely wonderful heartwarming story. Written as her life events, we to get to read and experience Katheryn Page's life's sorrows and yes, God given joys. We read how she made some wrong decisions in life and how she gave her baby up for adoption. We experience the pain and sorrow that resulted from never knowing her little baby girl. However, as she turned her life over to Christ and focused on Him, He gave her the desires of her heart "pressed down, shaken together, and running over."

I strongly recommend this book for anyone considering or having been through the adoption process. Whether the birth parent, child, adoptive parent, or someone who needs to know God is there and that He cares for us, anyone can benefit from this woman's life story. God really does bring joy in the morning, read how it happened to her.

I was really surprised as to see amazon did not list the description of this book. This is what the author has to say about the book:

"Unmarried with a young son, heartbroken with sorrow, I yearned to hold my newborn daughter. I wasn't permitted to know who adopted my baby, however, when I signed the adoption papers I caught a glimpse of their names-never to be forgotten. Many years later, when it seemed as if grief would be a "forever" companion, the father's name resurfaced, sparking a sequence of events orchestrated only by God-a divine appointment. I could not see around the bend, but God was there, unfolding His extraordinary plan.

I write my story especially for those with wounded spirits. We must all live with the consequences of our choices; fortunately God offers comfort for the broken heart and hope to the searching. Only He can give beauty for ashes."

Simplicity and tenderness make "Right to be WANTED, Right to be LOVED" an invaluable resource during the time when a child learns he or she is adopted. But John Perry's little book isn't important just for the youngster. It is equally beneficial to adoptive parents, and, as the author correctly states: "It is suited as well for assisting all parents and all children to understand the power and value of love that can underlie the adopting process."

Adults will become aware of a child's emotions when first learning about his or her status. In almost fairy tale form, this book addresses the speculative process about one's physical or biological parents and helps offer answers to questions usually posed by an adopted child.

As we might find a stage play, eight brief scenes (chapters) carefully guide a three, four or five-year-old through adoption's confusing maze. Children will like and identify with Allison (Bunny) Rabbit and her adoptive parents, Mother and Father Rabbit, who discuss how she became their special gift - indeed, why she was wanted and is loved.

Here is where the author illustrates an essential awareness of limited attention spans. He provides continuity among chapters thus enabling the reader to stop temporarily whenever the young child wishes. Subsequently, with a quick reminder of "where we were in our story," the parent can proceed down the path toward fulfillment of an essential obligation.

Helping all youth understand adoption is a fundamental responsibility of parents. However, it is especially unhealthy whenever adopted children become further perplexed because they weren't adequately prepared and tenderly exposed to the truth about this wonderful gift. "RIGHT to be wanted, RIGHT to be loved serves both objectives."

Among countless blessings, my adopted son is a constant source of unsurpassed joy. I wish John Perry's book had been on the shelves a long time ago. My grandchildren now have a copy. I'm so pleased this easy-to-read children's narrative is available because I know John Perry; I respect his wisdom, caring nature, integrity and his motivation.

You will, too.

Amazing story of a young boy's deprivation and abandonment in a ex-communist, struggling Romania. The book shows how a selfless & loving couple, already with 4 children, persist in trying to adopt this boy. The book brings out all details - the trials, the pains, the joy and the enormous red tape they had to go through.. It is a book you cannot put down. Just as you believe there is success, then there is failure. You cry, you laugh as you read. An well-written and excellent book!

Living life as a devoted priest is a challenge in itself, especially when the face of your first love haunts you. Putting that memory behind him, a Roman Catholic priest spends his entire life doing what he has been called to do: serving God and mankind. But what happens when he suddenly learns that everything he believed in and stood for is thrown in his face and he learns that he doesn't have a clue who he really is.

On his mother's deathbed, he learns that he was adopted as a baby--and the devout Roman Catholic priest is really Jewish! Does he accept this shocking information without question, or does he investigate to see if it is true?

As he digs into his past, he meets people from "the other side of the world" and reconnects with his past love, who helps him find his true roots.

This was a delightful tale, with surprises on every page. These two authors, in their debut novel, did a fine job of weaving twists and turns that show that life is never as simple as it seems. I highly recommend that you read this one. You won't be disappointed.

Janet Elaine Smith, whose Patrick and Grace Mystery "Old Habits Die Hard" is also chock full of priests, nuns and Mother Superior surprises of its own!Old Habits Die Hard: The Case of the Missing Mother Superior (A Patrick and Grace Mystery, Book 3)

The first time Mary Ann Koenig asked about her birth parents, "I saw a look on my adoptive mother's face that I had never seen before," writes Koenig. "Maybe fear, maybe hurt. The story of how I came into the world was a dangerous topic."
Today's parents are more willing to bring adoption into the open, a trend Koenig supports with moving essays culled from interviews with adoptees and birth and adoptive parents, compellingly illustrated with Berg's portaits. Meet Jim Rockwell, who at 60 felt a need to "lay eyes on one living sole whose flesh I am." (He found seven siblings.) And artist Kathryn Shelley, whose says trying to imagine her birth mother was like "grabbing smoke - there was nothing to hold onto." Koenig though offers plenty. (Peter Wolf Press, $29.95) Bottom line: Thought provoking look at family ties.

Salvador's Children by Lea Marenn is a HHHHH book that touches the soul. A new family tree By: Lindsay Rogan "I knew that my daughter was not only herself, not only Maria de Jesus. She was all the things that her parents were; and their parents, and theirs. She was the people from her village. She was the countryside where they gathered their food and washed their clothes. She was the flowers and grasses, the mountains and rivers she had known. She was the images and the stories. All that lived on in her, even when someone else was gone. I knew she would change, but somehow in her the past would become lodged. Somehow, I knew, all of it would live on." This passage from chapter 19 in Salvador's Children by Lea Mareen describes the entire journey of the book. Starting in the cruel heat of San Salvador, a female, North American college professor adopts eight year old Maria de Jesus and quickly learns that language is not the only barrier between them. Maria, having lived through the death of her parents, disappearance of two siblings, and responsibility of taking care of her younger brothers, is mature beyond her years and ready to tell her story. Slowly as she opens up to the narrator, her story of pain, poverty, love, happiness and joy are slowly brought to life creating a new dimension to her family portrait. Now that Maria has added her life to the picture, is there anyone left to carry on her history? Will her new mother understand the importance of family? Could she love Maria the way her mother did or would she also die, leaving Maria with another loss? Does she care enough to carry on the history of a different family? Was Maria a part of her family? Each of these questions plague Maria as the narrator learns more about her past, cops with Maria's fits of silence, and opens her heart to her new daughter. This book will teach the importance of communication, love and letting go of the fear of being unloved. A journey that begins on the first page, this book is bound to lasts forever in the heart.

The author does an excellent job writing about an interesting period of life. He writes with much sensitivity and excitement. It's a book children as well as adults will enjoy. I hope this author comes out with more books!