The Children Of China: An Artist's Journey features many different children in China: children who grow up in the saddle as nomads, kids who ride oxen to school, youngsters who are as agile as the mountain goats they tend. In these pages are a boy who plays chess with his shepherd grandfather, a teenager tending her father's pottery shop, children helping their mother collect leaves to use as fuel. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek behind yellow parasols and stilt performers wait to compete. The colorful clothing that varies with each minority seems to proclaim their independence. These dramatic and beautiful glimpses of Chinese family life are supplemented with a background text and an endleaf map locating the minorities. The Children Of China is a unique and highly recommended armchair tour the relatively unknown children of Chinese subcultures.