A review by toggle_fow
Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan, by Hildi Kang
4.0
I got this book from Netgalley, and picked it out because it looked like the kind of book I could learn a whole lot from. I was obsessed with Daughter of the Mountains for a while as a kid, and hoped that Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan would provide a similar vibrant, multi-faceted exploration of long-ago places and customs.
The premise is somewhat similar -- Chengli leaves the only place he has ever known in search of his father, rather than a stolen dog -- but the journey along the Silk Road holds plenty of interest. Chengli would have needed a little more detail, a little slower pace, and more heart to be just as good as Daughter of the Mountains, but I still wholly enjoyed it!
The premise is somewhat similar -- Chengli leaves the only place he has ever known in search of his father, rather than a stolen dog -- but the journey along the Silk Road holds plenty of interest. Chengli would have needed a little more detail, a little slower pace, and more heart to be just as good as Daughter of the Mountains, but I still wholly enjoyed it!