Children's & YA
Description
New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escape from Vietnam—a journey intertwined with an ant colony’s parallel narrative. At her home in Vietnam, a girl rescues ants from the sugar water set out to trap them. Later, when the girl’s family flees war-torn Vietnam, ants lead them through the moonlit jungle to the boat that will take them to safety. Before boarding, the girl folds a paper boat from a bun wrapper and drops it into the water, and the ants climb on. Their perilous journey, besieged by punishing weather, predatory birds, and dehydration, before reaching a new beginning, mirrors the family’s own. Impressionistic collages and a moving, Own Voices narrative make this a one-of-a-kind tale of courage, resilience, and hope.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Owlkids
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781771473637
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 17.95 USD
- Pages40
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions11 x 8.25 inches
- IllustrationFull Color
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