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A review by calistareads
From the Tops of the Trees by Kao Kalia Yang
4.0
This won the Asian literary award for 2023. I'm not sure if the award is like Caldecott and it's for art, or if it's for the whole story.
This is a bit of a memoir. The author tells of a time in 1985 when she was in a refugee camp in Thailand. The Hmong people were leaving their countries being persecuted, I think they were in Vietnam and Laos.
This little girl asks her dad if all the world is a refugee camp. The father wants her to know there is more to the world than just their day to day situation. He climbs a tree so she can see how much world there is. It's a beautiful sentiment.
I can't say I like the artwork. It uses, greens, grays, whites and browns. It's a limited color palette, but it is part of the feeling, the tone and the mood of the story that really gets across so much of what she went through. It's not meant to be eye catching, but to convey a feeling of what this person experience. Ok, well, that's my guess and what I got from it.
I didn't know anything about this part of history. It takes some bravery to put your faith in a place all the way around the world from everything one knows.
I don't think this book is for everyone, but it's a good story and some good facts about the rest of the world you probably don't know about.
This is a bit of a memoir. The author tells of a time in 1985 when she was in a refugee camp in Thailand. The Hmong people were leaving their countries being persecuted, I think they were in Vietnam and Laos.
This little girl asks her dad if all the world is a refugee camp. The father wants her to know there is more to the world than just their day to day situation. He climbs a tree so she can see how much world there is. It's a beautiful sentiment.
I can't say I like the artwork. It uses, greens, grays, whites and browns. It's a limited color palette, but it is part of the feeling, the tone and the mood of the story that really gets across so much of what she went through. It's not meant to be eye catching, but to convey a feeling of what this person experience. Ok, well, that's my guess and what I got from it.
I didn't know anything about this part of history. It takes some bravery to put your faith in a place all the way around the world from everything one knows.
I don't think this book is for everyone, but it's a good story and some good facts about the rest of the world you probably don't know about.