Welcome to 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.

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Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

This book is about the personal journey into the identity issues of multicultural adoptive families. How many times do you celebrate the New Year at home? Just once? If your […]

How I Was Adopted

Description “Sam has a joyful story to tell, a story completely her own, yet common to millions of families. It is a story of how babies are born and how […]

Lost Boy, The

“The Lost Boy” is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy’s journey through the foster-care system in search of a family to love. This is Dave Pelzer’s […]

I Love You Like Crazy Cakes

Based on the author’s own experiences, this heartfelt story follows a single woman on her journey to adopt a baby girl from China. The narrative chronicles the baby’s trip from […]

Our Baby From China

With simple text and loving photographs, OUR BABY FROM CHINA tells the true adoption story of Ariela Ziangwei. The book starts by showing Ariela’s new parents coming to China to […]

Over the Moon

This surrealistic yet utterly heartfelt story of one adoptive family’s beginnings starts on the night that a tiny baby is born. A man and a woman each dream about a […]

I’m Getting Ready…I Can Do It

Prepare for living on your own with this prize winning mini encyclopedia that details goals, budgeting, insurance, savings, credit, renting, safety, networking, comparative shopping, cleaning, laundry, foods, transporation, travel and […]