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Ling, Nancy Tupper

The Story I'll Tell

32 pp. | Lee | October, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-62014-160-1 $17.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jessica Lanan. A narrating mother "might" tell her adopted son one of several fantastical adoption stories (e.g., he "came from a land far away in a hot-air balloon"). Readers who want real answers about adoption may be frustrated until a two-page spread finally explains that an airplane brought the boy home. The watercolor and colored-pencil art strains for lyricism and sometimes succeeds.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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