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.