The Empress and the Silkworm

by Hong, Lily Toy

Misc./OtherAsia2Biology
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AR Book Level
4.4
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
1,077
Interest Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
36441 EN

About this book

This is 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.

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