![]() Bird cited how it "simply tells a true story about some of the people who were helped by Mao's rule" and has "universal stories from her youth that anybody can enjoy," even though it was one of several works around the Cultural Revolution, a common theme in children's books about China available in the United States, and used that particular setting. Reception īird gave a favorable review to the book in an article for the School Library Journal. The book includes supplementary materials, such as maps, translations of hanzi, a glossary, and a timeline of Chinese history. Elizabeth Bird, an Evanston Public Library Collection Development Manager and a previous New York Public Library materials specialist, stated how Na Liu cries since the other persons around her are also crying is "very realistic." The book includes Na Liu's reaction to the death of Mao Zedong. Ryan Holmberg stated in an article for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art that Little White Duck is "primarily a book designed to sensitize American children today to the poverty a distant, now-wealthy country experienced only a generation ago." Holmberg stated that therefore the Communist ideology present in China at the time is not the primary theme of the book. ![]() Na Liu, who grew up in Wuhan, is an oncologist and hematologist. ![]() It discusses Na Liu's childhood in China during the 1970s and 1980s. Little White Duck: A Childhood in China is a 2012 non-fiction graphic novel written by Na Liu and illustrated by her husband, Andrés Vera Martínez. ![]()
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