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57 pp.
| Farrar/Foster |
November, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-374-37552-6$$25.00
(2)
YA
This mystical, mysterious picture book tells of the artist's father's journey to Tibet in the 1950s, the stories he told upon his return, and the adult Peter's response to his father's diaries of the trip. Although the book contains no notes to sort story from myth, it details a quest made convincing, paradoxically, by both text's and pictures' matter-of-fact acceptance of the magical.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 1998