11 Christmas Books For Adoptive Families

This rhyming story celebrates the bond between parent and child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little Chinese girl and her adoptive parent, this title offers a poignant and inspiring message to adoptive parents and children all over the world. A beautiful gift for any adopted child this holiday season.

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This beautiful book on tape available on Google Play can be played on those long holiday car rides to visit family. This story celebrates a young child joining their family past infancy. The message of love and reassurance will be cherished by children and parents alike. Well suited for children ages two through eight.

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This is one of my favorite children’s books on adoption. This story is a mother’s love letter to her adopted Chinese daughter. Based on her own experience, Lewis recalls the events leading up to their first meeting as mother and daughter. This book offers abundant reassurances of love to adopted children. The watercolor illustrations are beautiful. Perfect for children ages four through eight.

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This Christmas story book is about a child in foster care named Welcome Comfort. Welcome is always moving from home to home and getting picked on by the kids at school. Even Christmas, the most wondrous time of the year, isn't so wondrous for Welcome, since he has no family, no presents, and no Santa Claus. But when Welcome meets Mr. Hamp, the school custodian, he finally finds a friend. And when Christmas comes around, Welcome is taken on an extraordinary adventure that changes his life forever.

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This wonderful Christmas story will be a favorite of your pre-teen or teenage child.

Katie, a foster child, wants only one thing for Christmas: a family. However, there are no wise men coming from the East or shepherds watching in the fields. There’s also a teenager named Matt, who believes in doing a good deed. And another teenager, Liz, whose family decorates and celebrates, but leaves her wondering where the true meaning of the holiday has gone. And Mr. Knight and his son, Tack, who run an inn and put up a tree each season, on which children’s wishes will hang as they hope and wait for them to be granted.

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For parents or grandparents of an adopted child, it is critical to understand what adoption and its process means to your child. This books addresses your child’s unique needs and offers points to discuss when feelings may remain unspoken. A wonderful jump starter to connecting with your child on an even deeper level this Christmas season.

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This is a beautiful Christmas gift for the family of an adopted child. This lovely keepsake album contains sections to record all the joyful milestones that mark a new baby's life, pages to chart the adopted child's unique journey, as well as a sturdy pocket in which to store important documents and memorabilia.

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As the founder of Trustify, we regularly work on search and reunions. Around the holidays, especially, you may have a stronger desire to receive information or connect with a child you placed for adoption or your birth parents or family. Richard Hill’s book, Finding Family: My Search for Roots and Secrets in my DNA is a page turner sharing his story of finding his birth family and information on his ancestral roots. A must read.

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Lisa Tawn Bergren tells this heartwarming tale with tenderness and a true understanding. Just as How Big Is God captures the immensity of looking at God through a young child's eyes, this book captures the more intimate, but no less profound, discovery of the blessings that adoption brings to both parent and child.

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Popular author-illustrator Parr illustrates the rewards of family ties in this heartfelt, supportive book geared toward adopted children and their parents. This story book inclusively depicts an array of children and families—including one with a single parent and one with two dads—and emphasizes the rewards of adoption for adults and children alike. Apart from the subtitle, the text never uses the word adoption nor refers to the adoption process, keeping the focus squarely on the universal joys of sharing hearth and heart.

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