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Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America | Helen Foster James, Virginia Shin-Mui Loh
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Twelve-year-old Lee, an orphan, reluctantly leaves his grandparents in China for the long sea voyage to San Francisco, where he and other immigrants undergo examinations at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
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Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America | Helen Foster James, Virginia Shin-Mui Loh
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#StorySettings Day 31: This narrative is based on the thousands of stories of Chinese immigrants who journeyed from their hometown in China aboard a #Ship to Ellis Island to find their paper families in America. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-9Dd

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Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America | Helen Foster James, Virginia Shin-Mui Loh
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I'm exploring children's books in which characters are affected by the Chinese Exclusion Act (specifically paper sons/daughters) as I prep an exhibit around this book. We have all the original illustrations, so I hope to create an experience where patrons feel like they are walking into the book. We interviewed the illustrator, Wilson Ong, & I learned interesting tidbits about oil as a medium for illustration.

LMK if you have a recommendation.

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