Booklist for adoption
Guidance
Fostering a child: A guide to people interested in fostering by Henrietta Bond. BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering), 2004
"This books tells you what you need to know about fostering including: The type of children needing foster care, the sort of people agencies are looking for, the different types of foster care, training and support methods and how foster carers are rewarded"
"If you don't stick with me, who will?": The challenges and rewards of foster care" Edited by Henrietta Bond. BAAF, 2005
"A collection of first-person accounts from foster carers - ordinary people who have done extraordinary things"
Family wanted: Adoption Stories Edited by Sara Holloway. Granta books, 2005
"A startling collection that really snags at the heart" Julie Myserson (Cover)
Fostering attachments: Long-term outcomes in family group care by Brian Cairns. BAAF, 2004
"A wider picture of fostering"
Ideas
Workbooks that can be borrowed to give ideas for joint work between foster parents and child (but not completed!)
My life and me workbook by Jean Camis. BAAF, 2001
" Outline of a life journey"
We are fostering by Jean Camis. BAAF, 2003
"A workbook for children whose parents foster other people's children"
Books for older children and teenagers
Getting sorted by rebecca Davidson. BAAF, 2007
"Deals with the questions raised by young people as they take more control of their lives"
Getting more sorted by Rebecca Davidson. BAAF, 2007
"A practical handbook that will answer many of the questions raised by young people as they move out of the care environment"
Books for younger children
Our Twitchy by Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan.
Nutmeg gets adopted by Judith Foxon. Illustrated by Sarah Rawlings
So Many Babies by Martian Selway
Tom and the Tree House by Joan Lingard.
