Natural Hair Rules  Hair care, styling and hair product recommendations.

Kurly T-spot   A beginner shares her tips for African toddler hair styling and care.

Chocolate Hair/Vanilla Care  Natural hair care, transracial adoption and everything in between.

ATTACHMENT/BONDING

The Connected Child
by Dr. Karyn Purvis, David Cross & Wendy Sunshine (Study guide available for download at: Empowered to Connect )

The Connection – Where Hearts Meet
by Dr. Karyn Purvis
Interactive bible study designed to help you build a loving, lasting connection with your child.

When Love is Not Enough – A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD – Reactive Attachment Disorder
by Nancy L. Thomas 

How We Love Our Kids – The 5 Love Styles of Parenting
by Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Shows parents how to overcome the predictable challenges that arise out of the five love styles and helps parents cultivate a secure, deep connection with a child of any age. Retool your reactions and refocus on how you love.

 

ORPHAN/ADOPTION MINISTRY

Fields of the Fatherless by C. Thomas Davis   

 

CULTURAL/TRANSRACIAL ISSUES

Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall   

 

GRIEF & LOSS

The Connected Child by Dr. Karyn Purvis 

Parenting The Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky

Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting The Adopted Child by Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma by Deborah D. Gray

 

SPECIAL NEEDS/HIV+ADOPTION

Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: Compassionate Care by Phyllis Kilbourn 

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Need Kids by Gregory Keck & Regina Kupecky

 

TRANSRACIAL ISSUES

Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall  

 

BABY/TODDLER ADOPTION

Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins Best  

 

OLDER CHILD ADOPTION

Parenting Adopted Adolescents by Gregory Keck

Parenting Your Adopted Older Child by Brenda McCreight, PhD  

 

LANGUAGE

Simple Amharic for Adoptive Families  by Amy Kendall

 

GENERAL ADOPTIVE PARENTING

Trust-Based Parenting (dvd) by TCU Institute of Child Development

Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogen

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

After the Dream Comes True   by Michelle Gardner

The Post-Adoption Blues – Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption  by Foli and Thompson

The Whole Life Adoption Book – Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family by Jayne Schooler

Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family by David & Renee Sanford 

 

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read-Aloud Stories

Dream Big, Little One

The Snowy Day

Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present

Elmer

The Skin You Live In

The Bridge That Love Built by Bratcher and Dean

You Belong Here by M.H. Clark

God Found Us You by Lisa Bergren

Shaoey and Dot by Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman

Chosen by Love by Tom Jaski

Miracle in the Land of Wu by Buffi A Young

A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza

Mommy’s Heart Went POP!  by Christina Kyllonen and Peter Greer

Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon (for ages 2-6)

E is for Ethiopia by Lori Prodan and Keith Holmes

I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak 

I Wished for You – An Adoption Story by Marianne Richmond

All About Adoption by Marc Nemiroff (for ages 4-12) 

Horace by Holly Keller (for ages 2-8) 

The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky (for ages 4-12)

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands by Kadir Nelson

Whose Toes Are Those? by Jabari Asim

 

FOR SIBLINGS OF ADOPTED KIDS (ages 3-10)

The New Barker in the House by Tomie dePaola

Is That Your Sister? A True Story of Adoption by Catherine Bunin 

Waiting for May by Janet Stoeke

Seeds of Love – For Brothers and Sisters of International Adoption by Mary Petertyl 

Things Little Kids Need to Know by Susan Uhlig

A Sister for Matthew by Pamela Kennedy