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Reviewed on July 1, 1994
PreS-Gr 2 A picture book that's a well-intentioned muddle. A young girl begs for an adoption story-not the fairy-tale variety that her mother first tells her about a fisherman and his wife who find a baby on the riverbank or the tale of a king and queen who want the one thing they do not have-but a REAL story about her own beginnings. The unexplicably reluctant woman relates the background and events leading up to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


