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Christensen, Bonnie

A Single Pebble: A Story of the Silk Road

40 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | October, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-715-9 $17.99
(2) K-3 A girl in China, 850 AD, gives her father a jade pebble, "a gift for a child at the end of the [Silk] road." He passes Mei's pebble to a Buddhist monk, who passes along both pebble and his flute, and so on. Soft watercolor and gouache illustrations feature intricate patterns in the style of each country visited. An author's note is appended. Websites. Bib.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2013

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