The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale (Hardcover) by Grace Lin

from katherine.fuller

Review: This book is about a king and a queen who feel a great sickness in their hearts but there is no doctor who can cure it. One man comes and gives them special glasses to put on, and it allows them to see a red thread that is leading them to something that they must go and find. The king and...

from matthewbloome

This story was very nicely done. A strong story of adoption told in fairy tale format. I really enjoyed it.

from mirikayla

Very sweet story of a king and queen who feel a pain in their chests and can't understand why until the doctor looks with special spectacles and sees that there are red threads tugging on their hearts. They follow the threads to find their baby.

from Whisper1

Note that Grace Lin is also the author of the award-winning books Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky Based on an old Chinese tale, the theme here is the bond between those who want to adopt a child, and the child that longs for adoption. Consequently, there is an invisi...

from Laene

The Red Thread uses a fairy tale format to tell the story of two parents adopting a child. In this case, a king and queen who are mysteriously entangled in a red thread, which they must follow to make the heart pains go away. It's inspired by an old Chinese saying that "an invisible, unbreakable ...