Title: The Empress and the silkworm
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Silk, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, China, fiction
Places: China
LC classification: PZ7.H7475 Em 1995