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Susan Bagnall
A gentle, visually clear introduction to adoption, centred on the Teazle rabbits welcoming a baby bunny. It may help begin conversations about joining a family and feeling wanted.
Todd Parr
A bright, direct introduction to adoption and family belonging, using repeated language and diverse family images. Its emotional centre is welcome, but its one-sided account of need may not fit every family’s experience.
Frida Nilsson
A warm, unusual story about an orphan girl and a gorilla forming a family, while facing official scrutiny and prejudice. Its humour and tenderness sit alongside uncertainty about belonging and justice.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Its emotional centre is the search for a new meaning of home.
Serena Patel
This is a brisk family comedy about a photography project, a camping trip and repeated practical mishaps. Its broader interest lies in questioning polished online images while showing family connection emerging through an untidy shared experience.
Lizzy Seaton
What Type Of Family Are We? is presented as a short book about modern families, told through a child’s eyes. Its central invitation appears to be noticing that families can take different forms.
Marianne Richmond
A warm, question-led story about how Barley Bear and his adoptive mother became a family. It introduces adoption-related ideas through cuddling, conversation and illustrations, rather than presenting a detailed account of every adoption experience.
Irena Brignull
This offers a gentle, imaginative way into questions about origins, adoption, belonging and family. Its woodland journey, animal encounters and illustrated fairytale atmosphere may invite close shared reading.
Justin Richardson
A gentle family story centred on two male penguins who care for an egg and raise Tango. Its main emphasis is belonging, parenting and adoption, with wider questions about what makes a family.
Becky Edwards
A gentle adoption story centred on Mia’s questions about family resemblance and her mixed feelings. It can open discussion of belonging without requiring every part of a child’s own experience to match Mia’s.
Carrie A. Kitze
This is a warm, repetitive story about noticing differences in appearance while recognising shared ways of living, feeling and connecting. Its central reassurance is that families can belong together without looking alike.
Samuel Langley-Swain
A gentle adoption story that acknowledges frightening beginnings, uncertainty about change and lingering sadness or anger, while offering comfort through foster carers, social-worker support and a loving adoptive family.
Jamie Lee Curtis
This is a warm, repetitive read about a child making sense of her family story. It offers an adoption narrative framed through loving recollection, with comic visual details alongside tender family moments.
Sharara Attai
This is a warm celebration of cousins as friends and family, including relationships maintained across countries. It offers a bright, inclusive shared-reading experience centred on connection.
Emma Chichester Clark
A warm picture-book story about welcoming a mysterious, vulnerable stranger, forming attachment, experiencing sudden separation and extending hospitality to others like him. Its imaginative setting leaves room to discuss belonging without explaining everything about Mister Toots.
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