Böcker av Barbara Kristof

Meili is an imaginary giant panda with a special gift. Guided by a strange and powerful Buddhist monk, Meili learns to use the extraordinary gift she has inherited from her ancestors to understand and even influence the thoughts of others. The stories in this book tell of the unusual and fascinating lives of her ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Bao Bao and continuing through several generations of giant pandas. As the gift showed up generation after generation in Meili's family tree, it changed as it adapted to those different personalities. When the gift eventually found its way to Meili, it allowed her to communicate with Wenling on a deep and meaningful level, changing Wenling's life and helping her find her destiny.

Meili and Wenling is the story of a giant panda and a young Chinese girl whose lives become intertwined after Wenling visits the pandas at the Wolong National Nature Reserve. It is at Wolong, which sprung like magic out of the panda book Wenling's grandmother gave her on her fifth birthday, that Wenling and Meili meet for the first time. From the very first moment they are together, Meili and Wenling communicate in a way that only the two of them understand, and Meili becomes that still, small voice inside Wenling's head that leads her to make good decisions and take the right actions. In this story, a family of giant pandas and a family of humans create together a kind of magical place that is built on the love and trust they feel for each other.