Bonnie Christensen is the author and illustrator of the Schneider Family Book Award winner Django and Woodie Guthrie: Poet of the people, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and a New York Times Notable Book. Most recently, she created Plant a Little Seed, of which School Library Journal said the language is poetic and evocative and the illustrations are a visual treat. She lives in Wilson, North Carolina.

In 9th century China, a little girl sends a small jade pebble to travel with her father along the Silk Road. The pebble passes from his hand all the way to the Republic of Venice, the end of the Silk Road, where a boy cherishes it and sees the value of this gift from a girl at the end of the road.