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001			on1131689156
003			OCoLC
005			20240726104426.0
008			191216s2020 onca j 000 1 eng
010			_a2019956952
015			_a20200155628 _2can
020			_a9781771473637
040			_aNLC _beng _erda _cNLC _dLMJ _dOCLCO _dSO _dEHH _dILC _dTOH _dOCLCF _dSDG _dIS# _dIMF _dSINLB _dOCLCO _dGO3 _dLIV _dHQD _dYDX _dOCL _dBDX _dUAB _dUKOBU _dUIU _dTXSCH _dSBI
042			_alac
049			_aSBIM
050	0	4	_aPZ7 _b.P374 2020
050	0	4	_aPZ7
100	1		_aLam, Thao, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe paper boat /Thao Lam.
260			_aToronto, Ontario ; _bOwlkids Books, _c(c)2020.
300			_a32 unnumbered pages : _billustrations ; _c29 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A refugee story."--Cover.
520	0		_a"Thao Lam's family came to Canada as refugees during the Vietnam War. When Thao started thinking about how to tell this story, she couldn't stop thinking about ants: small, seemingly insignificant creatures who are able to travel amazingly long distances overwater, work hard, and thrive on almost every continent on the planet. The Paper Boat starts with a story inspired by Thao's mother's life: a young girl watches as a bowl of sugar water is put out to attract (and get rid of) some pesky aunts. As the adults around her frantically make plans for escape, she dips her chopstick into the bowl to save the drowning insects. When the army arrives, the family must flee, and in the chaos, the girl and her mother become separated from the others, and get lost in the jungle. The mother gives the hungry girl a bun wrapped in paper, which she then folds into a paper boat. After they eat, the girl spots a trail of ants in the moonlight. They follow the insects to water and manage to meet up with the boat that will take them to safety. The story switches to the perspective of a family of ants who have boarded the paper boat. Their journey is full of peril. The sun is relentless, the ants are attacked by seagulls, they starve, a storm capsizes their boat, and many ants are lost. The survivors, however, cling to each other, creating a raft of their own bodies, eventually making it to shore. One ant ends up on a kitchen table, surrounded by food, much like the table from the first scene. But the family members around this table aren't quite the same. The grandmother is no longer there, the little girl has grown, and she's been joined by a baby sister. But they seem happy, and most importantly, they are safe. As the story ends, the reader zooms out to see that they are but one family in an apartment building full of families, in a busy city full of apartment buildings full of tiny, seemingly insignificant creatures, working hard and thriving. With this picture book, Thao is returning to an earlier format: the wordless picture book of sequential art. But she has pushed herself again with the artwork--and this story is a collage of simple shapes, clean geometry, and impressionistic washes of colour. Its simplicity belies its great depth of feeling. This is a heartfelt, one-of-a-kind book on every level."-- _cProvided by publisher.
530			_a2
530			_a2 _uhttps://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
650		0	_aBoats and boating _vJuvenile fiction.
650		0	_aFamilies _vJuvenile fiction.
650		0	_aOcean travel _vJuvenile fiction.
650		0	_aPaper toys _vJuvenile fiction.
650		0	_aRefugees _vJuvenile fiction.
650		0	_aStories without words.
650		1	_aAnts _vFiction.
650		1	_aBoats and boating _vFiction.
650		1	_aFamilies _vFiction.
650		1	_aFamily life _vFiction.
650		1	_aOcean travel _vFiction.
650		1	_aPaper toys _vFiction.
650		1	_aRefugees _vFiction.
653			_aGrade one.
653			_aGrade two.
655		0	_aPicture books for children
655		0	_aStories without words.
655		1	_aMulticulturalism in literature.
942			_c3010 _hPZ _eGOBI _i2021-05-17 _2lcc _dPatricia Wheeler
999			_c66670 _d66670
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell