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Author Lam, Thao, author, illustrator.

Title Thao / by Thao Lam.

Publication Info. Toronto : Owlkids Books, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J PIC GROWING UP LAM    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J PICTURE LAM    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB LAM    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  SCHOOL STORIES E LAM    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JJ LAM    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  JE LAM    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Children's Room  E LAM    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  GROWING UP LAM    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Picture Book  E LAM    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  JE L PEOPLE & PLACES    Check Shelf

Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary ""Thao" seems like a simple enough name. Only four letters--all of them belonging to many other names! And yet Thao had been called everything from "Tail" to "Theo" to "Towel." At one point, completely fed up, she decided it was time to try another name. Something "easy." Something like "Jennifer." But trying to be someone else only works for so long. And eventually "Jennifer" is swayed back to being herself when she opens her lunchbox and finds her mother has packed her Gỏi cuốn (also known as Vietnamese spring rolls)! Thao's favourite! Her name is pronounced "Tow" like the English word "how." While simple on the surface, this story of cultural assimilation and celebration of cultural pride runs deep. It is a personal one for Thao. And it will strike a chord with readers who have struggled to fit within a mainstream mold--then realized it was just more comfortable to be themselves. Visually, this book will also be a personal reflection of Thao in that she will be incorporating childhood photos into her usual cut-paper collage style! She has also opted to minimize the number of illustrations and instead play with type and typography as a way to highlight her name--and the many variations of it that appear in the book!"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Names, Personal -- Pronunciation -- Juvenile fiction.
Names -- Juvenile fiction.
Vietnamese -- Juvenile fiction.
Multiculturalism -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrant children -- Juvenile fiction.
Self-esteem in children -- Juvenile fiction.
Identity -- Fiction.
Names, Personal -- Fiction.
Names, Personal -- Pronunciation -- Fiction.
Names, Vietnamese -- Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance.
JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / General.
Immigrant children. (OCoLC)fst00967710
Multiculturalism. (OCoLC)fst01028836
Names. (OCoLC)fst01032344
Self-esteem in children. (OCoLC)fst01111697
Vietnamese. (OCoLC)fst01166629
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Picture books.
ISBN 9781771474320 (hardcover)
1771474327 (hardcover)
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