Transfiguring Adoption’s Thoughts:
Our family found Zachary’s New Home by Geraldine Blomquist to be a great book for children in foster care to explain on their level the process that their family is going through and help them process their feelings. The introduction in the beginning of the book directed at parents and professionals states that the target audience is foster children ages 3 through 8, and the book is meant to be read to them by their foster parents, adoptive parents, social workers, therapists, or counselors. We and the kids thought this was a great book for that age range and even felt kids a little older would benefit from this book, especially as kids in foster care do not often have books like this that they can relate to or that help them process their stories.
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Note: Transfiguring Adoption is a nonprofit organization seeking to nurture growth in foster and adoptive families by giving a HOOT about their families. Transfiguring Adoption does not intend for its reviewers nor its review to be professional, medical or legal advice. These reviews and discussion guides are intended to help parents to better be able to connect and understand their children who come from traumatic backgrounds.