Ánh's New Word A Story About Learning a New Language

A child living in a Vietnamese refugee camp learns their first word in English with a little help from their teacher and grandmother in this heart-warming picture book based on the author's childhood.

Many things are different for 聲h now that they've left Vietnam with their family. The weather is colder and they live in a communal barracks at a refugee camp while they wait for their new life in America to start. 聲h finds comfort in their warm-hearted teacher, Miss Mary Ellen, but has trouble with the foreign sounds of learning to speak English in class.

All 聲h wants is to be able to say "thank you" out loud to Miss Mary Ellen, but will the words ever stop getting stuck between their head and their voice? With a little inspiration from their grandmother-as well as the chance discovery of an adorable animal-聲h will try to gather the courage to finally say their first word in a new language.

Exquisitely illustrated by Bao Luu, 聲h's New Word by Hanh Bui is a hopeful story of finding your voice, inspired by true events from the author's childhood.

About the author

Hanh Bui; illustrated by Bao Luu

Summary

A child living in a Vietnamese refugee camp learns their first word in English with a little help from their teacher and grandmother in this heartwarming picture book based on the author's childhood.

Product details

• Authors: Hanh Bui
• Assisted by: Bao Luu (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.05.2024
• Subject: Children's and young people's books
• EAN: 9781250842138
• ISBN: 978-1-250-84213-8
• Pages: 32
• Age Recommendation: from age 3
• Illustrations: full-color illustrations throughout
• Dimensions (packing): 21.5 x 27 x 1.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 352 g
• Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, Back to school, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, United States of America, USA, School stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Relating to Asian American people, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, JUVENILE FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration, Immigration & Refugees, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Communities, places and peoples, gift ideas, grandmother grandparent grandma ba noi banoi relationship, ann new world, picture books about ESL english second language, teacher teachers librarian librarians, self reliance confidence self esteem, gifts for tet lunar new year, han bouy bow lou lu, anh's new word, nonbinary children, aapi vietnamese vietnam war, child refugee immigrant stories, sweet warm hopeful love loving, heritage history culture, diverse diversity multicultural international own voices