Me and my family
£18.00
Me and my family is a colourful book designed to help adopted children and their families to get to know each other, just before adoption, in the early stages and later on. Through writing, drawing and other activities, children are drawn into exploring and recording the changes in their lives as they move to their new family.
Divided into three parts, the book provides space for both the adopted child and the new family to write and draw about themselves and their feelings as they get to know each and learn to live together. This easy to use and imaginative resource is ideal to help adopted children and families to grow together. A separate booklet for the adopters clearly sets out how the book can be used.
This book is for looked after children who are to be adopted, children who have recently been adopted, and those who would benefit from undertaking life story work or direct work with their social workers, foster carers or adoptive parents.
The workbook can be used flexibly by any child, including children with special needs and children adopted from abroad.
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Reviews
The British Association of Adoption and Fostering is very good at producing practical, useful books for children in the process of being fostered or adopted, and this latest addition to their list is another good idea. It is intended to be used as a child is getting used to the idea of being adopted into a new family. There are places to write and draw about feelings and changes, things that are worrying, things that are happy, ups and downs etc. The design of the book is colourful and welcoming, and altogether this is a useful tool for those dealing with children in the throes of adoption.
Books for Keeps, booksforkeeps.co.uk
This book could be very useful for a child moving from foster care to an adoptive family. Throughout the book, there are lots of spaces for young people to draw, write or stick in photos. This has a real advantage in terms of enabling the book to be very personalised. This book would form a nice record for a child to remember their early days in their new family. It could also provide a tool to increase attachment between the child and their adoptive family. The book could be adapted to a wide age range.
Youth in Mind
With plenty of space for free expression as well as helpful prompts to guide a child who may be feeing confused but unable to work out why, Me and my family is a realistic and positive book to help children and their families through the emotional process of adoption
Juno magazine