The Empress and the silkworm
By:  Lily Toy Hong.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Morton Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Subjects: Silk -- Fiction; China -- Fiction
Description: 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.