Customer Reviews

An Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey

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Even if you do not have an internationally adopted child, but especially if you do, this is a beautiful and wonderfully told adoption tale. The text is both lyrical and telling, and written in a way that celebrates both An Mei's Chinese birth mother and her American adoptive parents. Because it is written in the child's voice, my adopted Korean daughter found it easy to express her feelings about her own adoption story and to find comfort in knowing that other kids have similar questions and feelings.

As important as the text, the illustrations in this book are incrediably beautiful and soothing. They tell the story of abandoment and new-found love in an honest but non-threatening way.

We continue to enjoy this book at home and I have given it as a gift to a number of friends who have Chinese-born daughters.

I highly recommend An Mei's Journey for both children and adults.

DO NOT BOTHER to buy this . Every other book that I bought in this area was better.I am an adoptive father and looked forward to finding something in this area by a man, since most of the stuff available seems to be written by mothers. But this book focused almost entirely on the writer-father's imagination of the babby's sensory experiences and the writer's strained imagery. Strangely self absorbed . Strangely unemotional .I returned it.

Having adopted 2 daughters from China, this book tells exactly ones thoughts, and what one has to do while in China. It is a warm story, based on a true life experience. This book is a keepsake and is a must for anyone thinking of adopting from china.

Even enough my daughter is only 19 months, I have started collecting books. Books that includes books on how families are different and yet the same, books on China both fiction and historical and on adoption to name a few. I don't see anything wrong with this book, I like that it is written from a man's point of view.

Those of us who have adopted Children from China have so little information on why our children where left. I think everyone imagines how our daugthers and sons got the spot they where left, so I don't see a problem with someone imagining and creating a fictional story based on some truth. The authors sentences are lyrical and the illustrator has done a nice job as well.