Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China

Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China
ISBN-10
0763624004
ISBN-13
9780763624002
Series
Red Butterfly
Category
Juvenile Fiction
Pages
32
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Authors
Sophie Blackall, Deborah Noyes

Description

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 secretly take with her a precious reminder of home.

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