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Dia's Story Cloth
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Dia, Chue, and Nhia Thao Cha were born in Laos. In 1975, Dia fled with her family to Thailand, where they spent over four years in the Ban Vinai refugee camp before gaining entry to the United States. Her uncle and aunt, Chue and Nhia Thao Cha, made this story cloth in 1990 in the Chiang Kham refugee camp in Thailand. They have since returned to Laos. Dia works as a cultural anthropologist in Boulder, Colorado.

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"A folk art masterpiece." -- Publishers Weekly "One of the most poignant, beautifully told family histories. This book brings alive the Hmong story as never seen before." -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "A moving book. . . an epic story." -- Hungry Mind ReviewBest Children's Books of the Year - Bank Street College of Education
CCBC Choices - Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People - National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

A folk art masterpiece from a Southeast Asian culture stands at the center of this thoughtful book. Intricately composed, painstakingly stitched by hand, the "story cloth" of the title was created by the author's aunt and uncle, Hmong who fled their native Laos for a refugee camp in Thailand. The story cloth records their experiences-which are also the author's own. Using details from the cloth as illustrations, Cha retells her life story, a meeting of Hmong history and a classic American immigration tale. Now an anthropologist in Colorado, Cha spent her early years during the 1960s in a Hmong village in Laos, where her family worked long days growing rice and corn. War tore the country apart; Cha's father was killed and she and her mother made a dangerous escape to Thailand, emigrating to the United States in 1979. The text is subdued; it is the needlework that drives home the poignancy of this cataclysmic account. For advanced readers, a lengthy afterword, by Joyce Herold, Denver Museum of Natural History's curator of ethnology, sets out historical background and assesses the story cloth as an art form. Ages 6-up. (Apr.)

"A folk art masterpiece." -- Publishers Weekly

"One of the most poignant, beautifully told family histories. This book brings alive the Hmong story as never seen before." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"A moving book. . . an epic story." -- Hungry Mind ReviewLos Angeles' 100 Best Books, International Literacy Association (ILA)
Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Pick of the List, American Bookseller's Association
Children's Books of Distinction Award, Hungry Mind Review

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