World Refugee Day is a United Nations initiative designed to increase public awareness about the forcibly displaced and stateless by telling their powerful personal stories. In an effort to promote this United Nations initiative, Wollongong Library will be attaching a number of suggested titles available to assist children in understanding of the plight of refugees.
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Monday, April 16, 2012

DO 1 THING - The Whispering Cloth - Suggested Reading for Children


The Whispering Cloth by Pegi Deitz Shea, published by Boyds Mill Press, Honesdale, USA (1996). It is a 32 page Junior Fiction book for children aged 6 and up. It is the story of Mai, a young Thai refugee during the mid-1970’s who learns from her grandmother how to embroider the pa’ndau. The story of her life and what she hopes as her future depicted upon ‘the Whispering Cloth’.

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