Glass tears / Mourning customs Sailors

Jolly, Jane, 1957-

Glass tears / written by Jane Jolly ; illustrated by Di Wu. - Willoughby, N.S.W. : Rainbow Dragon, 2008, c2005. - [30] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Previously published: Balmain, N.S.W. : Limelight Press, 2005.

"Tian and her family make a special glass bouquet to place on their father's grave. Some years before, he hed left Vietnam on a ship bound for wider, browner lands, but never came home. As Tian threads the tiny glass beads onto wire stems she remembers her father and shed for him a glass tear."--Provided by publisher.

For children.

9780980363418


Mourning customs--Vietnam--Juvenile fiction.
Sailors--Family relationships--Vietnam--Juvenile fiction.

A823.4