A distinctive story that weaves together threads of family life, community and culture, the natural world, and the power of stories. Though age separates them, Paj Ntaub’s accounting of everyday details reaches Bob-and gives voice to the child’s experience, too. When Ruth dies in the winter, and Paj Ntaub notices Bob grieving come spring, she chalks a wealth of previously regarded details on his driveway-“a map into the world,” she explains. Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American writer and author of the picture books A Map into the World, The Shared Room, and The Most Beautiful Thing as well as a number of books for adults, including The. debut, draws all the things that Paj Ntaub sees: gingko leaves (“yellow like apricots”), winter snow, a worm. In lovingly detailed spreads, Kim, making her U.S. When her twin baby brothers cry too loudly, her father takes her outside, where they wave to their elderly neighbors, Bob and Ruth. Young Paj Ntaub (both a girl’s name and a term that nods to needlework tellings of Hmong experiences) moves with her family to a green house and helps to hang their story cloth “about how the Hmong got to America” on the wall. Yang ( The Song Poet for adults), a Hmong writer making her picture book debut, offers a story about a girl who notices things.
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