Welcome to the Resource Library

About the Resource Library

This Resource Library is a collection of books, tapes, and DVDs, as well as instantly downloadable items, such as newsletters and tip sheets. You will find a wide variety of topics related to foster care, kinship caregiving, adoption, and more.

Wisconsin families and professionals are welcome to check out physical materials from our library for free (electronic items are available to all for free and on demand). The requested materials will be shipped to you with a postage-paid return envelope. You can help us serve more people by sending along a check for the amount of postage, if possible. You may check out four (4) items at a time and keep them for three (3) weeks.

TABLES OF CONTENTS

To help you navigate our rich library of free downloadable resources, we have created some table of contents documents that we hope you find helpful.

Questions? Comments? Please e-mail info@wifamilyconnectionscenter.org

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Don’t touch my heart

This book delivers factual information about attachment disorder in a style that combines lyricism, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

I’m Brown and My Sister Isn’t

Families are often advised to begin talking about adoption while a child is very young, even before he can understand the words, so that the child will grow up seeing […]

Every Year on Your Birthday

K6029 PreSchool-Grade 1—Another tender offering from the creators of I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Little, Brown, 2000). Here, a mother relates her thoughts and emotions on her daughter’s birthdays, […]

Wake Up, Ellie!

K6042 This book celebrates the work of WACAP (World Association for Children and Parents). This wonderful organization has placed over 9,000 children with loving, adoptive parents and provides food, health […]

Flora’s Family: Understanding Adoption

Ages 4+ QEB’s Understanding… series has been specially designed to help young children deal with new, bewildering, or upsetting situations that may be affecting them or those around them. Beautiful […]

Motherbridge of Love

K6040 This book shares its name with a London-based organization dedicated to promoting greater understanding of Chinese life and culture among adoptive families in the West. The text, credited to […]

Boat in the Tree (The)

K6039 (Ages 3-6) The young narrator (about seven years old) wants a boat, so he borrows his dad’s hammer and nails and uses a lot of wood and an old […]

My Mei Mei

More than anything else in the world, Antonia wants a Mei Mei, little sister, to call her own. But when she and her mother and father fly all the way […]

It’s Okay to Be Different

(The Okay Book) combines rainbow colors, simple drawings and reassuring statements in this optimistic book. His repetitive captions offer variations on the title and appear in a typeface that looks […]