Books About Adoption
Children’s books and literature are a great way to explore the concept of adoption with your child. Please find books that are recommended by our staff and adoptive parents. If there is a book that you would like for us to add, please contact us and we would be happy to add it to this page.
The Invisible String written by Patrice Karst
Recommended by Elena, adoptive parent 2025
As long as love is in your heart, the Invisible String will always be there. When Mom tells her two children that they’re all connected by an Invisible String, the children insist, “That’s impossible!” But still, they want to know more: “What kind of string”?” The Answer is the simple truth that binds us all:
It’s an Invisible String made of love. Even though you can’t see it, you can feel it deep in your heart and know that you are always connected to the ones you love. This joyful contemporary classic for all ages has helped comfort and heal countless readers by easing separation anxiety, loneliness, and loss, while also exploring the intangible yet unbreakable connections between us all.
A Mother for Choco written by Patrice Karst
Recommended by Sarah Iverson, adoption coordinator/adult adoptee
This book is one of my favorite books from my childhood about adoption. I remember reading A Mother for Choco often with my parents. It is a great story about how families come in all shapes and sizes and no matter what you look like, you’re loved.
Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.
Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn’t meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn’t even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she’s his mother-but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children-a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator-and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together. Keiko Kasza’s twist on the “Are you my mother?” theme has become one of the most highly recommended stories about adoption for children..