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The Story I'll Tell

Review
By The Horn Book Guide

A narrating mother “might” tell her adopted son one of several fantastical adoption stories (e.g., he “came from a land far away in a hot-air balloon”). Readers who want real answers about adoption may be frustrated until a two-page spread finally explains that an airplane brought the boy home. The watercolor and colored-pencil art strains for lyricism and sometimes succeeds.