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Thi Bui

5 stars across 2 books

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam three months before the end of the Vietnam War, and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the "boat people" wave of refugees from Southeast Asia. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected as both an Indies Introduce and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers title, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. She is also the illustrator of A Different Pond , a children's book by Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017). Thi taught high school in New York City and was a founding teacher of Oakland International High School, the first public high school in California for recent immigrants and English learners. She currently teaches in the MFA in Comics program at the California College of the Arts. She lives in Berkeley with her son, her husband and her mother.

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A Different Pond

6th February 2020

A Different Pond

A 2018 Caldecott Honor Book that Kirkus Reviews calls "a must-read for our times," A Different Pond is an unforgettable ... MoreA Different Pond

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Finding Papa

30th March 2023

Finding Papa

Finding Papa has been named the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award Picture Honor Book by the Asian Pacific American Libra... MoreFinding Papa

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A Different Pond

by I_teach_muggles

A Different Pond is loosely based on the experiences of author Bao Phi. Phi moved with his family to Minnesota from Vietnam as a war refugee in 1975. ...
A Different Pond

by bmd83

A sweet, short graphic novel about tradition, family and culture. An immigrant father and son take an early morning fishing trip and explore the reaso...

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