Listen, Slowly (25 page)
Authors: Thanhha Lai
Photo by An Lại-Omar
THANHHÀ LẠI
was born in Việt Nam and now lives with her family in New York.
Like the father in
Listen, Slowly
, Thanhhà has been buying bicycles for poor children in Viêt Nam since 2005. To learn more about Thanhhà and her charity, Việt Kids Inc., visit
www.thanhhalai.com
.
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Inside Out & Back Again
Cover art © 2015 Zdenko Bašić
Cover design by Ray Shappell
LISTEN, SLOWLY
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Vietnam: A Natural History
by Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley, and Le Duc Minh.
ISBN 978-0-06-222918-2 (trade bdg.)
EPub Edition © January 2015 ISBN 9780062229205
Map illustration © 2015 by Rodica Prato
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