{"id":805,"date":"2008-11-01T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=805"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:00:58","slug":"grandfathers-story-cloth-by-linda-gerdner-and-sarah-langford-illustrated-by-stuart-loughridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/grandfathers-story-cloth-by-linda-gerdner-and-sarah-langford-illustrated-by-stuart-loughridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather\u2019s Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner and Sarah Langford, illustrated by Stuart Loughridge [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Grandfathers-Story-Cloth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29936\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Grandfathers-Story-Cloth-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grandfather's Story Cloth\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Chersheng, a young Hmong American boy, feels helpless and frustrated as his\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s-challenged\u00a0\u00a0grandfather begins to forget more and more. His mother shows him his grandfather&#8217;s story cloth, a traditional Hmong art form that captures some of the terrifying experiences of war that his grandfather lived through in his native Laos. Chersheng is deeply inspired by his grandfather&#8217;s story, as well as the aging story cloth, and decides to make his own art project that captures the family&#8217;s new American life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-806 alignleft\" title=\"grandfathers-story-cloth\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/grandfathers-story-cloth.jpg\" alt=\"grandfathers-story-cloth\" width=\"128\" height=\"157\" \/>Chersheng, a young Hmong American boy, feels helpless and frustrated as his Alzheimer\u2019s-challenged  grandfather begins to forget more and more. His mother shows him his grandfather&#8217;s story cloth, a traditional Hmong art form that captures some of the terrifying experiences of war that his grandfather lived through in his native Laos. Chersheng is deeply inspired by his grandfather&#8217;s story, as well as the aging story cloth, and decides to make his own art project that captures the family&#8217;s new American life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697,62,6,1623,1143,6535],"tags":[1968,6608,10,11,3543,135,3544,13,3545,3546,45],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilingual","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-hmong","category-hmong-american","category-repost","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandfathers-story-cloth","tag-grandparents","tag-linda-gerdner","tag-love","tag-sarah-langford","tag-stuart-loughridge","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grandfather\u2019s Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner and Sarah Langford, illustrated by Stuart Loughridge [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/grandfathers-story-cloth-by-linda-gerdner-and-sarah-langford-illustrated-by-stuart-loughridge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grandfather\u2019s Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner and Sarah Langford, illustrated by Stuart Loughridge [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chersheng, a young Hmong American boy, feels helpless and frustrated as his Alzheimer\u2019s-challenged grandfather begins to forget more and more. 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