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The Tiger’s Choice: The Clay Marble
Fleeing the horror that has turned her home in Cambodia into a battleground filled with death and starvation, twelve-year-old Dara and what is left of her family cross the border into neighboring...
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The Tiger’s Choice: Revisiting The Clay Marble
Eleven years ago I made my first visit to Cambodia and fell in love. I was in Phnom Penh, which in 1997 was a city of hope, and the mood of joyous optimism that pervaded its streets was irresistible....
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Books at Bedtime: Hush! A Thai Lullaby
With our present focus on literacy and my avowal that it’s never to soon to start sharing a bedtime story, I feel it is time I put the spotlight on a book for that early age-group. In her last post on...
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The Tiger’s Choice: The End of The Clay Marble
For me, The Clay Marble has always seemed a book for all ages, and an important introduction to modern Cambodian history, to Cambodian culture, and to the nightmare years of the Khmer Rouge...
View ArticleThe Tiger's Bookshelf: A New Incarnation
We have deeply enjoyed hosting the Tiger’s Choice, the PaperTigers’ online bookgroup, over the past year–it introduced us to a number of interesting books, a group of authors whom we hadn’t read...
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Thank you, Readertotz, for highlighting this gorgeous video of one of my favorite singers, Andrea Bocelli, singing Sesame Street’s Elmo to sleep with a variation on one of his most well-known songs –...
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PaperTigers’ Global Voices feature with award winning author Holly Thompson...
English-language Asia-set Children’s and YA Fiction ~ by Holly Thompson Part 2 of 3 (read Part 1 here) Some years back as we settled into our bicultural family life with young children here in Japan,...
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