Picked this up at a rummage sale today on the strength of the cover illustration. I'm so glad I did. The story is spare, not quite tipping over into melancholy, but certainly dreamy and sad and lonely. The illustrations are flat gorgeous, they have a turn-of-the last century feel to them. The dual protagonists are both only children with rich interior lives. The ending made my eyes leak a little. ( )

I thought that this book was very heart-warming. It's about two lonely children who live on opposite sides of the world. The little boy lives in Paris and the little girl lives in California. Both live a very boring and lonely life. Their parents are always at work and neither one has any friends. The two children meet at a baseball game in California when the boy gets sent to camp. Many years later, once they have grown up, they meet and get married. It's such a wonderful thought to think that your soul mate lives on the other side of the world, and if fate exists, one day you will unite and live as one. I would like to hope that they got married in September. Every woman can only fantasize to tell such a magnificent "How we met" story, such as that of our characters. ( )

A rich boy in Paris and a poor girl in California's Mojave Desert meet in an unlikely fashion in this charming little story that anyone can enjoy. Text and pictures integrate beautifully and evoke an emotional response of big, wide spaces and the isolation that you know the children are feeling. The ending is totally enchanting! The only problem was that it was too short - not such a bad thing, though, when you are reading to children! ( )