Inspiration
INSPIRATION
For those families that are traversing a journey around: adoption, chronic conditions, nutrition for children with chronic conditions or general self-care for the adults or professionals supporting children living with difference. Here are some of our favourite reading materials.
Children’s Books:
- It’s okay to be different by Todd Parr
- We belong together by Todd Parr (Adoption)
- The Invisible String by Patrice Karst (Death/Grief)
- The Magic Mat and its little secret by Carmen Clews
- What Colour is Love by Linda Strachan and David Wojtowycz
- The Colour of Us by Karen Katz (Race Relations)
- The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (starting school, moving country or home town)
- Lion’s in a Flap. A book about feeling worried by Sue Graves & Trevor Dunton
- Hide & Seek: Finding friends in unexpected places by Melissa Kay
- Sam’s Shadow Braves The Night by Melissa Kay
- And Tango makes three by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
- What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg (Explaining the birds and the bees – Preschool/Elementary)
- Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg (Senior Primary/Middle school)
- Mixed by Aree Chung (Race Relations)
- What happened to You? by James Catchpole & Karen George
- The Proudest Blue : A story of Hijab and Family (Difference, Race Relations)
- I Miss You: A first look at death by Pat Thomas (Death)
- Cry, Heart, But Never Break by Glenn Ringtved
For the Parents
- The Gorilla in the Room: Talking with Your children about Mental Illness and Stigma by BL Acker
- The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World by Lisa Harper
- If You Loved Yourself What Would You So Now? In Your Life by Eilat Aviram
- You Have Permission to Exist By Eilat Aviram
- 30 Daily Devotions for Battle-Weary Parents by Pam Parish
- Adoptive Parent Intentional Parent:A Formula for Building & Maintaining Your Child’s Safety Net By Stacy Manning
- The Connected Child: bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by David R Cross, Wendy Sunshine, Wendy Lyons Sunshine
- Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
- Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families by David Epston, Jennifer Freeman & Dean Lobovitis
- A Person My Colour: Love, Adoption and Parenting While White by Martina Dahlmanns
- Dear Adoptive Parents, Things you need to know right now from an adoptee by Madeleine Melcher
- The Dance of Anger: A Women’s Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships By Harriet Learner PhD
Great Things Are Done By A Series Of Small Things Brought Together ~ Vincent Van Gogh ~
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