The Empress and the silkworm / written and illustrated by Lily Toy Hong.
Material type: TextPublication details: Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman & Co., 1995.Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:- 0807520098
- [E] 20
- PZ7.H7475 Em 1995
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Historical Events | Hong, Lily Toy | Available | 33111004062481 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Almost five thousand years ago, a young Chinese empress was having tea in the garden. A cocoon from a mulberry tree fell into her cup. Through a dream and her persistence, the first silk cloth was made.
A fictionalized account of the Empress of China's discovery, around 2700 B.C., that the cocoons of the worms in her mulberry trees were made of fine, shiny, silken thread which could be made into beautiful cloth.