num_pages: 32
description: A touching and beautiful adoption story that reveals the challenges as well as the joys of forming a new family.This is a story about a little girl who needed a mommyand a forgotten blanket that needed a little girland a woman who needed them both.This is a journey about the forming of a family.It is as lyrical as a love letter from a mother to her daughter,as honest as the struggles they encounter,and as comforting as a cozy red blanket.Eliza Thomas went to China in 1994 to adopt her daughter PanPan, who was then 5 months old. This is their story.
language: English
title: The Red Blanket
titlecomplete: The Red Blanket
genres: Cultural, Childrens, Adoption, Picture Books, Family
ratings_count: 109
publisher: Scholastic Press