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Name: The Empress and the silkworm
Author: Lily Toy Hong

📘 The Empress and the silkworm by Lily Toy Hong

A fictionalized account of the Empress of China's discovery, around 2700 B.C., that the cocoons of the worms in her mulberry trees were made of fine, shiny, silken thread which could be made into beautiful cloth.

First publish date: 1995

Authors: Lily Toy Hong

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