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The Only Child

This 100-page book of pencil illustrations was listed as one of the 2015 New York Times Best Illustrated Books and also the Publishers Weekly Book of 2015. It tells the story from the perspective of a six-year-old. There are no words, only pictures to present the story.

Born in Shanxi province in 1983, the book's author, Guo Jing, also an only child, often read books and played games alone during her childhood. The book was inspired by her haunting memories: a six or seven year-old Guo once mistakenly got off a bus at the wrong stop and lost her way in the woods.