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Molnar-Fenton, Stephan Flesher, Vivienne, Illustrator

An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey

32 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2477-0

(3) K-3 This stream-of-consciousness adoption story is told in the first person by a young girl who is understood to be Chinese. Expanding brief memories of sounds and smells into fully realized scenes, the story is more reassuring than factual and should appeal to older adopted children who wonder about their beginnings. The mystical quality of the text is well matched by tender pastels that recall both Mary Cassatt and Marc Chagall.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.