General Reading: "Parenting the Hurt Child" and "Adopting the Hurt Child" by Gregory Keck "Attaching in Adoption" by Deborah Gray "Inside Transracial Adoption" by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall "Raising Adopted Children" by Lois Melina "Culture Resources Guide" Go To Amazon To Search For Books Books on Openness: "Children of Open Adoption" by Patricia Martinez Dorner and Kathleen Silber. The topics in this book include the essential "ingredients" for successful open adoption and communication tips for talking about open adoption with children of all ages. "How to Open an Adoption" by Patricia Martinez Dorner. This book gives guidance to adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoption professionals in how to navigate more inclusive relationships. "Lifegivers: Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Open Adoption" by James L. Gritter. This book examines the ways birth parents are marginalized. The author makes the point that adopted children are best served when birth parents and adoptive parents work together to ensure that birth parents remain in children's lives. "The Open Adoption Experience " by Lois Ruskai Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia. This complete guide for adoptive and birth parents touches on almost every aspect of open adoption. "The Spirit of Open Adoption" by Jim Gritter. This book gives a realistic look at the joys and pains of open adoption for birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. "What is Open Adoption?" by Brenda Romanchik. Written from the perspective of a birth mother in an open adoption, this pocket guide provides concise information and resources. Go To Amazon To Search For Books Good Adoption Bookstore: "Tapestry Books" This bookstore offers more than 300 adult and children's books on adoption, infertility and parenting adopted children. For children, preteens and teens topics include understanding adoption, thinking about birthparents, celebrating differences, and being in foster care. For adults, topics include international adoption, transracial adoption, before you adopt, talking about adoption, adopting older children/children with special needs, attachment, foster parenting, search and reunion, infertility and adoption issues. Go To Tapestry Books To Search For Books