{"id":8009,"date":"1997-03-04T11:32:58","date_gmt":"1997-03-04T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:39:44","slug":"the-little-weaver-of-thai-yen-village-by-khanh-tuyet-tran-illustrated-by-nancy-hom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-little-weaver-of-thai-yen-village-by-khanh-tuyet-tran-illustrated-by-nancy-hom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village by Khanh Tuyet Tran, illustrated by Nancy Hom [in What Do I Read Next? 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She starts to weave again, as she did with her grandmother, creating blankets to send back to refugees in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>A bilingual book, written in both English and Vietnamese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1977<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/11\/little-weaver.jpg\" alt=\"Little Weaver\" title=\"Little Weaver\" width=\"132\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8010\" \/>Hien\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>A bilingual book, written in both English and Vietnamese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? 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