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1.		The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child from Nancy Verrier Price: £9.30 Customer Review: This book sheds light on the traumas which can affect many babies - not just those given up for adoption. As Ms Verrier points out, the 'Primal Wound' is also experienced by incubator babies. Logically it will also be felt by the babies of selfish, unloving mothers, and even, so some degree, by... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew from Bantam Doubleday Dell Price: £6.74 Customer Review: This book just reflected my own experiences with my adopted children. It struck a chord many times with my children too.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddlers from Jessica Kingsley Publishers Price: £13.95 Customer Review: We were also asked to read this as part of adoption assessment. There's no doubt that there's a lot of useful information, particularly for children who have suffered a particularly rough start in life and anything that helps them is to be supported. However the bit I didn't like was constantly... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice (Child & Adolescent Mental Health) from Jessica Kingsley Publishers Price: £18.99 Customer Review: Despite desperately wanting to 'understand' attachment and attachment disorder due to being a foster carer for a young boy with these issue,s I found this book to be far too difficult to read and take in. Infact just reading the product description written above by amazon themselves is a good... more info	Customer Rating: 1.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child from Crossroad Publishing Co ,U.S. Price: £7.74 Customer Review: an excellent book i have even learn't about my 3yr old birth child . This book has really helped me understand about childrens behaviour and how adoption might effect their development what to be expected and what not .this is a must for anybody going through the adoption process.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		A (First Look at Books) from Barron's Educational Series Price: £5.35 Customer Review: I find this book to be a really good introduction to the concept of adoption and why children are adopted. It may not be deep enough for an adopted child, but is ideal as a starting point, or as an introduction to friends and familys' children who are about to have adopted cousins or friends enter... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Raising Adopted Children from HarperCollins Price: £6.74 Customer Review: Myself and my husband are at present going through the adoption system and i found this book has helped me in terms of understanding issues that can come up and also getting us through the whole process. it is written in a really easy format and as it is written by an adoptive parent herself there... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption from British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) Price: £23.70 Customer Review: If you are after one comprehensive, academic but also accessible text on Attachment Theory (and there are a lot of books out there on this topic) I would recommend this for parents, foster carers and also practitioners. I particularly liked the way the book repetitively used the same structure... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		My Family, My Journey: A Baby Book for Adoptive Families from Chronicle Books Price: £8.80 Customer Review: We have just adopted our daughter who is 1 and we wanted an adoption baby book, and this is ideal. It has spaces about the parents and how they got together, why they chose to adopt, how they felt, hopes and dreams for the child, what the first meeting was like, who the special people were... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Blue-eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption from Pan Books Price: £5.24 Customer Review: Nicky Campbell has employed the same ruthless approach to the research for his biological parents that he uses in his interviews for radio and television. What makes his book such a compelling read, is his preparedness to share his faults and shortcomings, his fears and emotions with the reader. I... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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