My First Book of Vietnamese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Vietnamese Language and Culture

About Nguyen DongPhuoc Thi Minh Tran

Phuoc Thi Minh Tran spent ten months in a refugee camp in Malaysia before coming to America. In 1984 a 50-hour Greyhound bus trip brought her from California to Minnesota where she became the state's first Vietnamese librarian. She has been an active storyteller for over twenty years visiting many cities across the US to share Vietnamese folklore with children and adults alike. She is the author of the Moonbeam Award-winning Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories.https://phuocthiminhtran.wordpress.comIllustrators Nguyen Thi Hop and Nguyen Dong began their careers as young professional artists in the South Vietnam of the 1960s exhibiting in France Taiwan Germany and the US as well as in Saigon. Since their marriage in 1968 they have collaborated on book and magazine covers posters and illustrations for over one hundred titles for publishers around the world. Among their many titles are Thich Nhat Hanh's Each Breath a Smile and Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories.