The Empress and the Silkworm is by Lily Toy Hong. This is a 5,000 year old legend about an empress who first imagines the lowly silkworm's thread as a luxurious, beautiful cloth. We picked this story because it is an old legend of the Asian American people and it helps us identify why their culture is the way it is today.
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China is by Ed Young Translated as "Wolf Grandmother", this is a Caldecott Award-Winning book. This book retells the familiar story in a wondrous Chinese way. We picked this second story because we thought it was interesting how it was a story that we were familiar with just retold from a different cultural perspective.
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