Hush! A Thai Lullaby, by Min Fong Ho -- 8/50
Min Fong Ho is an American author of Chinese descent who grew up in Thailand. Her story Hush! is evocative of her childhood home outside Bangkok which was, as she describes it on her web page, "an airy house next to a fishpond and a big garden, with rice fields, where water buffalo wallowed in mudholes, on the other side of the palm trees. I liked the usual things - eating roasted coconuts and fried bananas, chasing catfish in the grass in the rain." This world from Min Fong Ho's childhood is the setting for Hush.
Hush! is a lullaby where a mother whispers to the birds in the air, the animals on the ground and the insects on the vegetation to quiet themselves so her baby can go to sleep. In the end, the world is asleep, the mother is asleep, all are asleep, except the baby who lies smiling in his cot.
The lovely illustrations of Thai scenes are perfect for the story, but unfortunately not done by a POC.
Hush! makes a great bedtime book and has just enough irony for any exhausted parent.
Hush! is a lullaby where a mother whispers to the birds in the air, the animals on the ground and the insects on the vegetation to quiet themselves so her baby can go to sleep. In the end, the world is asleep, the mother is asleep, all are asleep, except the baby who lies smiling in his cot.
The lovely illustrations of Thai scenes are perfect for the story, but unfortunately not done by a POC.
Hush! makes a great bedtime book and has just enough irony for any exhausted parent.