informative read about movies that feature adoption. Could be very useful to anyone looking for films to show a child that feature adoption to help facilitate a conversation.

As someone who is actively going through the adoption process this book is a great resource. I have been actively promoting it in the discussion groups I’ve attended. Read it.

Adoption is surprisingly pervasive in the world of cinema, and for those of us with an adopted child/children this can be great, but also occasionally traumatic. What this book and accompanying website do is try an flag up films that have adoption or related content, and draw out points of interest that can be used to discuss things with you child etc. Like any such endeavour i was not always in total agreement with some things, but overall this is a great reference tool, and should be applauded.

Another fantastic book by Jessica Kingsley Publishers who are at the top of the game here in publishing books that really matter for parents and kids alike. In Adoption at the Movies, authors Addison Cooper and Rita Soronen, sensitively acknowledges the complexities of the adoption triangle and how to use movies to open up discussions with our children about it. Their guidance was so on point and insightful and fresh that I was filled with new ideas about how to talk to my daughter about adoption. Honestly I thought I did a pretty good job at this but as I read this book it became clear that many of them were lacking depth. I appreciated their knowledge of child development and how they it impacts and how to steer discussions (short or longer) to their particular stage. The only missing piece for me was that these discussions never touched on any of the macro issues/dynamics that lead to adoption (poverty,race and class) which especially challenges and confounds kids as they grow up. There was so much potential to do this is seemed a missed opportunity. Overall, however, I will be keeping this book right beside me as my family tackles the joys/challenges and complexities of adoption.

I was really disappointed by this book as I had been looking forward to reading it and finding out about new movies that covered adoption that I was not aware of. The author describes various movies in depth. Really in depth. Far too much in depth. Talk about spoilers. There is a couple of sections at the back which lists the movies under various topics, and another which breaks the movies down under age-appropriateness, and these are more useful. However, it would have been far better if the Kindle version was interactive so that you could jump straight to the movie in question. But the worst thing of all is the recommended reading bit. It's awful. Terrible selection of books which were old and, in the main, out of print. This is shameful for a JKP publication.