cover image The Whispering Cloth

The Whispering Cloth

Pegi Deitz Shea. Boyds Mills Press, $10.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-1-56397-623-0

A Hmong refugee girl remembers painful episodes from her life in a pa'ndau, a traditional story cloth. Close-up photos of Yang's textured needlework ""add to the [tale's] poignancy,"" said PW. Ages 3-8. (Sept.)