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Three Names of Me
Mary Cummings, Lin Wang
$15.95
ISBN: 0807579033
Format: Hardcover
 
Pub Date: 10/01/2007
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Shipping Weight: 1lbs
   
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If you have any connection to any of the "Families with Children from China," you're going to want to read this book. It will make you cry.

Ada has three names. Wang Bin is what her caregivers called her at her Chinese orphanage. Ada is the name given her by her American parents. And there is a third name, whispered to her by her Chinese mother.

"My first name was whispered to me by my first mother, when I was born. It's someplace in my heart. I don't know how to say it. I wish I could.
I didn't see my first mother long.
I never saw her again.
I am from someone I don't even know.

She is my China mother, and far away I have a father, too. They made my hands and my eyes and my dark hair, all the parts of me I can touch and see.
But they took me to an orphange.
I don't know just why.
My heart tells me they were sad.
China is crowded and not rich.
It has rules about how many children a family can have.

There is much more. The story is simply told with illustrations done in watercolor and colored pencil in a style the illustrator calls "ethereal realism."

A gentle book, but with a powerful and moving message.
 
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