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IconIllustration for Grandma’s Treasured Shoes
by Christina Huynh
watercolour
acquired from Christina Huynh, 2021
Call number: PXD 1554
Courtesy Christina Huynh and NLA Publishing
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Audio file
Transcript
So the illustrations for Grandma’s Treasured Shoes, they’re all based off real things. The main character’s based off my mother. And the shoe is actually based off a real shoe that was believed to have belonged to a young Vietnamese girl, maybe eight or even younger, and I have placed it in every single spread of the book. It was given to me by a family friend named Son Nguyen, and it was found off Koh Kra Island in Thailand – because he does lots and lots of refugee work in counselling – and so that shoe was very much a real shoe. Yes, it’s a sandal – a white sandal that was found in a rubble of people’s belongings.
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Topic Title
A small shoe with a big story