The Red Blanket
Eliza Thomas, Joe Cepeda
Hardcover
(Scholastic Press, May 1, 2004)
A touching and beautiful adoption story that reveals the challenges as well as the joys of forming a new family.This is a story about a little girl who needed a mommyand a forgotten blanket that needed a little girland a woman who needed them both.This is a journey about the forming of a family.It is as lyrical as a love letter from a mother to her daughter,as honest as the struggles they encounter,and as comforting as a cozy red blanket.Eliza Thomas went to China in 1994 to adopt her daughter PanPan, who was then 5 months old. This is their story.
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