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The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story
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4 out of 5
Based on 3 Ratings and 3 Reviews

Book Description
Mai spends her days at the Widows' Store, listening to the Hmong women as they stitch and talk, stitch and talk. They are making pa'ndau---brightly colored story cloths--which they sell to the traders from Chiang Khan. Mai wishes she, too, could make one of the beautiful pa'ndau, but what story could she tell? This moving and poignant tale depicts life in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mai lives ther... More
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PublisherDemco Media
BindingTurtleback (5 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of PagesN/A
ISBN-100606103627
ISBN-13978-0606103626
Publication Date10/1996
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About Pegi Deitz Shea (Author) : In a refugee camp in Thailand in 1989, I discovered my reason to live: to write multicultural fiction, nonfiction and poetry about children struggling to survive all over the world. My human rights/so... more
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About (Illustrator) : Anita Riggio is an award-winning author and illustrator of picture books, Smack Dab in the Middle, Beware the Brindlebeast, Secret Signs, A Moon in My Teacup, Gert & Freida, and Wake Up William! as we... more
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