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The whispering cloth : a refugee's story / written by Pegi Deitz Shea ; illustrated by Anita Riggio ; stitched by You Yang.
LIBRA PZ7.S53755 Wh 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shea, Pegi Deitz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hmong (Asian people)--Juvenile fiction.
- Hmong (Asian people).
- Refugee camps--Thailand--Juvenile fiction.
- Refugee camps.
- Refugee children--Thailand--Juvenile fiction.
- Refugee children.
- Hmong (Asian people)--Fiction.
- Refugee camps--Thailand--Fiction.
- Refugee children--Thailand--Fiction.
- Thailand.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Boyds Mills Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau.
- Young Mai's grandmother teaches her to make the traditional Hmong pa ndau storycloth while they are living in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mai weaves her life and dreams into her pa ndau and when it comes time to sell it so that her family may leave the camp, she questions whether she will be able to do so.
- Notes:
- Includes glossary.
- ISBN:
- 1563971348
- 9781563971341
- 1563976234
- 9781563976230
- OCLC:
- 35958089
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