Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China
by Deborah Noyes
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In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents' kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to surreptitiously take with her a precious reminder of home.Tags
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while beautifully describing parts of Chinese court life, the actual silk smuggling was only about one of the sentences of the story. it seemed the book ended only half way through the story; I would've liked more about what happened when the princess reached her destination, as well as about the silk making process. the afterword was way better in this regard.
A princess from China must marry far away from her home. She had to let go of all her precious items that she loves from home. She only took with her, her unique hairstyles, silk robes, and maybe something else quite valuable. The setting is around 500 A.D.
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Deborah Noyes writes nonfiction and fiction for young readers and adults. Her books include One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals, The Ghosts of Kerfol, Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter Nellie Bly, and Encyclopedia of the End: Mysterious Death in Fact, Fancy, Folklore, and More. She has also show more compiled and edited the short story anthologies Gothic!, The Restless Dead, and Sideshow. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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