04 Mar / The Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village by Khanh Tuyet Tran, illustrated by Nancy Hom [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
Hien’s village is destroyed during the Vietnam War, killing her mother and grandmother. Hien is seriously injured and must go to the U.S. for an operation; after, she begins to live with an American family. She starts to weave again, as she did with her grandmother, creating blankets to send back to refugees in Vietnam.
A bilingual book, written in both English and Vietnamese.
Review: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997
Readers: Children
Published: 1977
By in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American
Tags > BookDragon, Family, Grandparents, Immigration, Khanh Tuyet Tran, Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village, Nancy Hom, Refugees, War, What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature