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BASIC BOOKS
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Rachel Rokicki at 212-340-8164
Rachel.Rokicki@Perseusbooks.com
Adam Pertman at 617-332-8944
Apertman@peoplepc.com

PSYCHIATRISTS HONOR "ADOPTION NATION" AUTHOR

Basic Books is proud to announce that Adam Pertman, author of the acclaimed book "Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America," will receive a unique honor this week: the "Special Friend of Children" award from the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

This is the first such award ever given by the council, the largest branch of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It will be presented at a dinner Wednesday, June 5, starting 7 p.m. at the Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham. Pertman will give a speech and answer questions at the ceremony.

Pertman, who is executive director of the Adoption Nation Education Initiative, also is a writer and lecturer on family and children's issues. He is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist who has received greater recognition for his book and his work than perhaps any other writer/educator in the adoption field.

"Adoption Nation," recently issued in paperback, was named Book of the Year by the National Adoption Foundation and has been reviewed as "the mostimportant book ever written on the subject." The Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law and the American Adoption Congress gave Pertman their first-ever awards as America's foremost adoption journalist-educator.Pertman also received the 2002 Friend of Adoption award from the ODS Adoption Community of New England, the Year 2000 Journalism Award from Holt International Children's Services, and the prestigious Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship from the Century Foundation.

Pertman has appeared in numerous media - including Oprah, the Today show, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. Hiscommentaries have run in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun and on NPR, among others. His lectures have been featured bythe National Academy of Sciences, the Child Welfare League of America, and many other child-advocacy, family-education, and adoption-relatedorganizations.

Journalists wishing to interview Pertman should contact him directly, as should anyone interested in his availability for speeches, consulting, orother projects. For general information or review copies, please phone or email Rachel Rokicki at Basic Books. Anyone interested in the Special Friendof Children award or the event at which it will be presented should contact Joan Wall at 781-942-9429 or NECCAPJMW@aol.com.

For excerpts, reviews and more about Pertman, go to http://www.adoptionnation.com.

"Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America"
By Adam Pertman//Published by Basic Books (ISBN: 0465056512)

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