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Ka's Garden / Kab Lub Vaj

UW-L Author:

Dr. Bee Lo
Modern Languages

Maggie Lee McHugh
Murphy Learning Center
Copyright: 2010
Publisher: Universal Human Publishing

Lo, Bee and McHugh, Maggie Lee. Ka's Garden / Kab Lub Vaj. La Crosse, WI: Universal Human Publishing, 2010.

Ka's Garden/Kab Lub Vaj is a Hmong/ English bilingual children's book about the traditional values of creating a garden. This particular garden is the first planted by a young girl named Pa Houa, in Laos. Pa Houa asks her mother, or Niam, "Why do we garden?" Her Niam explains that gardening is part of their culture, bringing them closer to the earth, and a part of their way of life. Then Pa Houa asks, "What...

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