{"id":1533,"date":"2007-11-01T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:03:24","slug":"the-red-thread-an-adoption-fairy-tale-by-grace-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-red-thread-an-adoption-fairy-tale-by-grace-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Red-Thread-Grace-Lin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30006\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Red-Thread-Grace-Lin-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Red Thread Grace Lin\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a delightful new spin on how adoptive parents and children are bound together. Using the age-old Chinese belief that a red thread binds people together in love, Lin has created a touching fable about a king and queen who, in spite of their near-perfect life, find themselves in great pain. A wise old peddler offers special glasses that reveal a red thread attached to their hearts. The couple must journey to the thread\u2019s end to find their heart\u2019s desire, a precious daughter to call their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1534\" title=\"red-thread\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/red-thread.jpg\" alt=\"red-thread\" width=\"128\" height=\"101\" \/>Here&#8217;s a delightful new spin on how adoptive parents and children are bound together. Using the age-old Chinese belief that a red thread binds people together in love, Lin has created a touching fable about a king and queen who, in spite of their near-perfect life, find themselves in great pain. A wise old peddler offers special glasses that reveal a red thread attached to their hearts. The couple must journey to the thread\u2019s end to find their heart\u2019s desire, a precious daughter to call their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,67,21,6,6535],"tags":[82,1968,6608,10,438,790,39,3330,41],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-chinese","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-repost","tag-adoption","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-folklore-legend-myth","tag-grace-lin","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-red-thread-an-adoption-fairy-tale","tag-royalty"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-red-thread-an-adoption-fairy-tale-by-grace-lin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a delightful new spin on how adoptive parents and children are bound together. 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