Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Lorena Ramirez is an athlete who loves to run. Her swift footsteps echo through the copper canyons of Mexico as she runs in an ultramarathon for sixty miles. She wears a skirt sewn by her mother and rubber sandals made from tires when she runs so she can honor the Raramuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico. She wins the race against hundreds of people from other countries.

A woman writes a letter to officials in China to ask for the adoption of a baby girl. The new mother cries and the little girl does too when they are united. This begins a love story between a mother and her baby in a new country before they travel to another new country for the baby.