Setting the tone for this adoption story, The White Swan Express begins with a series of lovely images: Four families waking up to a sunrise in North America, followed by four baby girls sleeping soundly in the middle of the night in China. The story then follows the journey of these four families to China, where they …
Best known to most parents as the author of timeless children’s books such as The Giving Tree, poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein was also a songwriter and recording artist—and not only with the Grammy-winning album version of his book Where the Sidewalk Ends. Between 1959 and his death in 1999, Silverstein released more than a dozen records. …
