If you haven't heard yet, Roman and I have decided to become Foster Parents with the intention of adopting. We are both really excited! Getting ready and slowly making our way through the process is exciting, terrifying and fun. We started collecting books a while ago- its always fun to have something to search for at good will. We have found some good collectables - adding to my Jan Brett collection!
Teaching preschool has certainly prepared me for this task! I have a whole list of my favorite books from story times, and a pretty keen sense of what kids will like to hear. Since we don't actually know anything specific about our future child we've been curating a collection of books that have themes of inclusivity, love, adoption, and be yourself attitudes, as well as diverse characters. For fun there are also a variety of science based books, and my favorites from childhood.
Old Favorites
Miss Rumphius By Barbra Cooney
The Quilt Story By Tony Johnston
The Paper Bag Princess By Robert Munsch
Girls to the Rescue By Bruce Lansky
Roman's childhood book of poems
New Finds
Caps For Sale By Esphyr Slobodkina
The Hippo-Not-Amus By Tony and Jan Payne
Even Monsters Need Haircuts By Matthew McElligott
The Weaving of a Dream By Marilee Heyer
Alejandro's Gift By Richard E Albert
Goggles! By Ezra Jack Keats
Along with these we have many kids books in Slovak (so I can learn and practice) as well as The Chronicles of Narnia, Little House on the Prairie, and two full sets of Harry Potter (English, and Slovak).
Other Books on our 'Wishlist'
Click Clack Moo
Dragons Love Tacos
Snowmen At Night
Giraffes Can't Dance
Rosie Revere: Engineer
Violet the Pilot
Ada Twist: Scientist
A Mother for Choco
Llama Llama (Roman gets mad when books don't rhyme)
Before You Were Mine
Love Makes A Family
The Snowy Day (or anything by Ezra Jack Keats)
here is a link to more foster care oriented children's books
Please let us know your favorite kids books in the comments!
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