New children's book ! (adoption related)

This book will be available in August and looks like a neat book.



Forever Fingerprints, An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children
by Sherrie Eldridge
For adopted children, learning about their beginnings and how they understand what that means to them is a process. It doesn’t happen at one point in time, but rather throughout the experiences of life. In this heartwarming children’s book, Forever Fingerprints uses a common occurrance–a relative’s pregnancy–as a springboard for discussions on birthparents, where adopted children are before they are born, and how that makes one little girl feel about it.


Lucie is excited to feel a baby moving in
her Aunt Grace’s tummy but it makes her think of how she understands her adoption story in a different way. The tools offered in this book help her to create a unique connection to her birthparents, allow how she is feeling to surface and to be discussed, and give Lucie’s parents the chance to reinforce their love for her, to empathize with her feelings and to honor her past.


Here is a list of books for children (some are adoption related):

Mother For Choco by Keiko Kasza
Over the Moon by Karen Katz
I Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze
Little Miss Spider by David Kirk
You're Not My Real Mother! by Christy Hale
A Mama for Owen by Marion Dane Bauer
Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Jane Dyer
My Family Is Forever by Nancy Carlson
The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story by Anne Braff Brodzinsky
We See the Moon by Carrie A. Kitze
Brown Like Me by Nicole Lamperti
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr

Not really about adoption but also a great book!

We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi Kates


Here is a list of english books about Africa that I have found that I hope to have in our collection someday!

Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
Rain by Manya Stojic
Doctor de Soto Goes to Africa by William Steig
Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab by Barbara Bash
Africa by Random House Australia
Pop-Up: African Animal Giants by James Dietz
Hugo Hippo's ABC Fun Book in Africa by Designs Jacaranda
My Rows and Piles of Coins by E. B. Lewis
African Animals ABC : An Alphabet Safari by Sarah L. Schuette
Water for One, Water Everyone by Stephen Swinburne
Exploring Africa by Hazel Mary Martell
One Child, One Seed : A South African Counting Book by Gisele Wulfsohn
Off to the Sweet Shores Africa by Uzo Unobagha
Nana's Cold Days by Adwoa Badoe
Hands-On Africa: Art Activities for All Ages by Yvonne Merrill

For older children

The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis
The Africans by Jen Green
The Blind Hunter by Kristina Rodanas
Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People by Margot Theis Raven
This Place Is Wild: East Africa by Vicki Cobb
Africa Is Not a Country by Mark Melnicove
Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot by Jane Kurtz
Ethiopia: A Question and Answer Book by Mary Englar
When the World Began: Stories Collected in Ethiopia by Elizabeth Laird



All of these books are available on amazon.ca

If you have seen or have bought other books, please leave a comment and I will add them to the list as I will keep this list on the side bar of my blog for quick references later.

I also have a list of french books (as our girls will be bilingual but our first language is french). There is not as many but if you would like me to send you the link, just let me know !