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Children's Fiction De røde sko - The Red Shoes Hans Christian Anderson ➝ Peter Pan in Kensington Garden J M Barrie ➝ The Finding Nina ➝ The Ghosts and Jamal Bridget Blankley ➝ An Angel for May Melvin Burgess ➝ Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs ➝ Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech ➝ James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl ➝ Being Billy Phil ➝ Anna Casey's Place in the World Adrian Fogelin ➝ Coram Boy Jamila Gavin ➝ Who Am I? The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 Anita Heiss ➝ Home For a While (4-8 years) Lauren Kerstein ➝ The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling ➝ The Willoughbys Lois Lowry ➝ Delly Duck (4-8 years) Holly Marlow ➝ Saffy's Angel Hilary McKay ➝ Lucky Button Michael Morpurgo ➝ The Cherub Series Robert Muchamore ➝ The Cat Who Saved Books Sosuke Natsukawa (Author), Louise Heal Kawai (Translator) ➝ Fablehouse E.L. Norry ➝ Escape from Cockatoo Island Yvette Poshoglian ➝ Mostly Mary Gwynedd Vulliamy Rae et al. ➝ When Marnie was There Joan G Robinson ➝ Don't Ask The Dragon Lemn Sissay (Author) Greg Stobbs (Illustrator) ➝ The Leftovers Eleanor Spence ➝ The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict Trenton Lee Stewart ➝ The Circus is Coming Noel Streatfeild ➝ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain ➝ Uprising Alex Wheatle ➝ Tales of the Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful Sophie Willan ➝ The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Lawrence Wilson et al. ➝ Hetty Feather (novel) Jacqueline Wilson ➝ Refugee Boy Benjamin Zephaniah ➝ The Snow Queem Hans Christian Anderson ➝ Cinderella Giambattista Basile ➝ Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans ➝ Paddington Michael. Bond ➝ The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett ➝ The Boxcar Children Mysteries Gertrude Chandler Warner ➝ Tell me again about the night i was born Jamie Lee Curtis ➝ Oliver Twist (adapted) Charles Dickens ➝ Moonfleet J. Meade Falkner ➝ The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman ➝ Pictures of Hollis Wood Patricia Reilly ➝ Strong and Tough Rico Hinson-King and Nick Sharratt ➝ What Mummies Are Made Of by Stephanie Hutton Storgy Kids ➝ Watch over me Nina LaCour ➝ Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian ➝ The Children of the New Forest Frederick Marryat. ➝ Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles (4-8 years) Michelle Meadows ➝ Alone On A Wide Wide Sea Michael Morpurgo ➝ Henderson's Boys Robert Muchamore ➝ Close Your Pretty Eyes (11-13 years) Sally Nicholls ➝ Runaways E.L. Norry ➝ The Ruby In The Smoke: 1 (A Sally Lockhart Mystery) Philip Pullman ➝ The Star Outside My Window (8-11 years) Onjali Q. Rauf ➝ Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone J K Rowling ➝ The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket ➝ Heidi Johanna Spyri ➝ The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart ➝ Fosterboy Rhian Taylor ➝ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain ➝ Home Girl Alex Wheatle ➝ The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries J.T. Williams ➝ We Are The Beaker Girls Jacqueline Wilson ➝ My Mum Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Sharratt Wilson et al. ➝ The Coral Island RM Ballantyne ➝ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum ➝ Peter and Lotta's Christmas Elsa Beskow ➝ My Forever Family: from fostering to adoption Nicky Brookes ➝ A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett ➝ The Wanderer Sharon Diaz Creech et al. ➝ The BFG (book) Roald Dahl ➝ Great Expectations (adapted) Charles Dickens ➝ Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher ➝ The Small miracle Paul Gallico ➝ A Walz Through the Hills G.M. Glaskin ➝ The Invisible String (3-6 years) Patrice Karst ➝ The Water Babies Charles Kingsley ➝ Pippi Longstocking Astrid Ross Lindgren et al. ➝ Back Home Michelle Magorian ➝ Little Women Louisa May Alcott ➝ Anne of Green Gables (adapted) Lucy Maud Montgomery ➝ A Long Way Home Michael Morpurgo ➝ We Are Wolves Katrina Nannestad ➝ The Sound of Everything Rebecca Normal ➝ Pollyanna Eleanor H Porter ➝ I was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers Philip Pullman ➝ The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself (4-9 years) Ali Redford ➝ Dennis and the Big Decisions (2-5 years) Paul Sambrooks ➝ Jamberoo Road Eleanor Roberts Spence et al. ➝ Extraordinary Birds (8-12 years) Sandy Stark-McGinnis ➝ Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild ➝ The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime Hana Tooke (Author), Ayesha L. Rubio (Illustrator) ➝ Homecoming: Volume 1 Cynthia Voight ➝ My Bright Shining Star Fatima Whitbread (Author), Rhian Wright (Illustrator) ➝ Dustbin Baby Jacqueline Sharratt Wilson et al. ➝ Midnight Jacqueline Sharratt Wilson et al. ➝ Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things Matilda Woods ➝ Back to Top

Authors A The Snow Queem ➝ De røde sko - The Red Shoes ➝ Little Women ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos The Red Shoes (film) 1948 The Red Shoes (1948) is a British dance drama film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 fairytale. It follows aspiring ballerina Victoria Page, who joins the prestigious Ballet Lermontov under the demanding impresario Boris Lermontov. Cast as the lead in a ballet adapted from Andersen’s story, Victoria must navigate the relentless demands of art, her ambition, and her love for composer Julian Craster. As her career soars, she faces impossible choices between love and professional success. Ultimately, caught between loyalty to her art and her heart, Victoria tragically mirrors the fate of the Andersen heroine, her life and death inseparable from the symbolic power of the red shoes. External Website

Films/Videos Grace and Frankie 2015 Grace and Frankie (2015-2022) is an American comedy television series (Netflix) stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the eponymous Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein, two aging women who for as long as they can recall, have been rivals. Their one-upmanship comes crashing to a halt, however, when they learn that their husbands have fallen in love with each other and want to get married. Nwabudike "Bud" Douglas Bergstein is one of the main characters in Grace and Frankie. He is the adopted son of Frankie and Sol Bergstein and the adopted brother of Coyote Bergstein. He is currently a lawyer at Robert and Sol's firm, Hanson & Bergstein. External Website

Authors G Girls Incarcerated ➝ Gosford Park ➝ Girl in the Picture ➝ Grace and Frankie ➝ Goodnight, Mister Tom ➝ Gemini Man ➝ Orphan Girl ➝ Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story ➝ Gary ➝ Good Will Hunting ➝ Back to Top

Care Experience & Culture, a Digital Archive, the first of its kind will feature care experienced literature, spoken word and academic material. Ten Things Every Foster Child Wishes You Knew (2024) Alex Rider Series 2 (2021) Taboo (2017) Ten Things Every Foster Child Wishes You Knew (2024) 1/13

Films/Videos The Strays 2023 The Strays (2023, Netflix), is a British thriller starring Ashley Madekwe as an upper class woman, Neve, whose life looks ‘perfect’. Neve works as the deputy head of a privileged private school where the majority of students are white. Although everyone knows Neve is Black, Neve’s family and the wider community are all surprised when 2 Black teenagers (Jorden Myrie and Bukky Bakray) arrive to claim Neve as their mother. Understandably distressed that their mother abandoned them in the past and is in the process of rejecting them again, the teenagers become disruptive, and unfortunately – because it perpetuates stereotypes – violent. External Website

Authors T The Butcher Boy (film) ➝ The Mission ➝ The Proposal ➝ The Changeling (crime drama) ➝ The Quiet Girl ➝ The Book Thief (film) ➝ The Sleeper ➝ Take Care of Maya ➝ The Christmas Bunny ➝ The Girl in the Spider's Web (film) ➝ The Wonder ➝ The Last Tree ➝ The Secret Garden ➝ The Strays ➝ Taking Hold of Our Heritage (film) ➝ The Illustrated Mum (TV movie) ➝ The Kid (1921) ➝ The Magdalene Sisters ➝ The Buckingham Murders ➝ The Song of Names ➝ The Changeling (1980) ➝ The Marvellous Martha ➝ The Last Daughter ➝ The Beautiful Game ➝ 12 Mighty Orphans ➝ The Blind Side ➝ The One Percent - We have dreams and aspirations ➝ The Personal History of David Copperfield ➝ The Witches ➝ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ➝ The Woman in Black (film) ➝ The Last Black Man in San Francisco ➝ The Power of One ➝ The Chaperone (2018) ➝ The Limehouse Golem ➝ The Life Ahead ➝ The Reality of Foster Care ➝ The Children's Train ➝ The Thirteenth Year ➝ The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes ➝ The Goldfinch (2019) ➝ The Family ➝ The Forgotten Maggies ➝ The Umbrella Academy ➝ The Christmas Note ➝ The Accidental Twins ➝ The Real Mo Farah ➝ The Last Jedi ➝ The Hurricane ➝ Three Identical Strangers ➝ Terminator 2: Judgement Day ➝ The Department ➝ The Sea Beast ➝ The Windermere Children ➝ Cousins ➝ The Inheritance (film) ➝ The Silencing ➝ The Unloved ➝ Thirteen ➝ The BFG (film) ➝ The Thirteenth Tale ➝ The Cider House Rules (1999) ➝ The Batman ➝ The Missing Children ➝ The Grinch ➝ The Boxcar Children (film) ➝ The Rise of Skywalker ➝ The Pale Blue Eye (film) ➝ The Tearsmith (Film) ➝ The Woman in the Window (film) ➝ The Postcard Killings ➝ The Importance of Being Earnest ➝ The Talented Mr Ripley (Film) ➝ The Harder They Fall ➝ Two Heads Creek ➝ The Protege ➝ The Unforgivable ➝ The Secret of Roan Inish ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos The Missing Children 2021 A powerful documentary about an Irish scandal has won an award at the 2022 Baftas for best Specialist Factual. The Missing Children tells the story of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, which operated between 1925 and 1961. In 1975, 2 boys playing on the site discovered skeletons. There are 2 stories explored in the documentary. One is that as many as 800 children had died in the Home and been carelessly buried in the grounds. The others is that as many as 1000 children were illegally sent to the US for adoption. Survivors tell the stories - adoptees who grew up in the US, and siblings of children who died in the Home. External Website

Authors S Sharper ➝ Star Wars (film series) ➝ Steve Jobs ➝ Shape of Water ➝ Slim and I ➝ Small Axe, Series 1, Alex Wheatle ➝ Something to be proud of - a film by Kinship ➝ Split Up in Care - Life Without Siblings ➝ Sex in a Cold Climate ➝ Slumberland ➝ Stolen Spirits ➝ Surviving the Storm ➝ Storm Damage ➝ Symposium: The Impact of Lived Experience on Care Associated Research by Care Experienced Researchers ➝ States of Fear ➝ Small Things Like These (Film) ➝ Superman ➝ Summerland ➝ StephiRaye ➝ Shooting Fish ➝ Spiderman ➝ Suffragette ➝ The Scamp ➝ Star Wars: The Force Awakens ➝ Shirley (Film) ➝ The Sapphires ➝ Somers Town ➝ Speak Out 1986 ➝ Stormbreaker ➝ Santa Claus: The Movie ➝ Sunshine Christmas ➝ Shazam! ➝ Stolen ➝ Sleepers ➝ Seeking Justice ➝ Simone Biles Rising ➝ Scrooge ➝ Seriously Funny [the story of Corey White] ➝ Stolen (2011) ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Slim and I 2020 Joy McKean (b. 1930) is recognised as one Australia's leading songwriters, and she wrote most of her husband's - the iconic Slim Dusty - most popular songs. Her story is told in the 2020 documentary, Slim and I, in which she talks of the impact of being separated from her family for 3 years from the age of 4 when she was hospitalised with polio. "It made me very different" she says. External Website

Authors D Dustbin Baby ➝ Despicable Me ➝ De Tweeling (Twin Sisters) ➝ December Boys ➝ Film | DrumCamFilms ➝ Dorian Gray ➝ Dear Daughter ➝ Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot ➝ Dr. No ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Dear Daughter 1996 In this drama documentary by Louis Lentin, Christine Buckley tells about the atrocities she experienced as a child in Dublin’s Goldenbridge orphanage. Born in Dublin, Buckley was the daughter of a married Irish woman and a Nigerian medical student. At the age of three time at the orphanage and her determination to find her parents. External Website

Films/Videos Gaskin 1983 Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care. It doesn't deal with his later life or his work which led to our rights to access our child care files. Director: Alan J.W. Bell Writer Stephen Wakelam Stars: Paul McGann as Graham External Website

Authors U Uncle Jack Charles ➝ Urban Hymn ➝ Us to You ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Uncle Jack Charles 2021 Beloved Australian actor Jack Charles, a member of the Stolen Generation, finally finds out who his father was on this episode of Who Do You Think You Are. External Website

Films/Videos You Are My Home 2020 You Are My Home tackles the subjects of foster care and immigration in the United States. 11 year old Alexandra (Eva Ariel Binder) is left on her own when her mother is deported back to Mexico. The child is placed with Chloe (Angel Parker) who is grieving the loss of her husband and son in a car accident and initially finds it difficult to relate to Alexandra. There are a number of foster care characters in the film, including Carlos (Cristian de la Fuente) who helps Chloe with Alexandra. External Website

Authors Y You Are My Home ➝ You be the Judge ➝ Back to Top

Authors H Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story ➝ Hysteria ➝ Housesitter ➝ He Even Has Your Eyes ➝ Hillbilly Elegy ➝ Hunt for the Wilderpeople ➝ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ➝ Hamilton ➝ High Ground ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos He Even Has Your Eyes 2016 Sali and Paul and a married French-African call who finally receive a call that a 4 month old baby is available for them to adopt. Because the baby, Benjamin, is a white baby, much drama ensues as Sali's family will not accept a white baby as their grandson, the social worker subjects the couple to more surveillance that she does white couples, and the wider community assume Sali is the child's nanny, not her mother. External Website