Last Flight

Name: Last Flight
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Kristen Mai Giang
ISBN: 9798889561644

Author: Kristen Mai Giang, Dow Phumiruk

Narrator: Quyen Ngo

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/04/2023

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Historical Stories

Synopsis

On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon’s surrender to the North Vietnamese Army.

Kristen Mai Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of fleeing her home from the perspective of someone eight years old; playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister’s eyes from tear gas; sneaking a stuffed animal into the family’s overstuffed suitcase for comfort.

About Kristen Mai Giang

Kristen Mai Giang is a Chinese American author who immigrated from Vietnam when she was eighteen months old and grew up in San Gabriel, California, a melting pot of Asian cultures and cuisines, which inspired Grandma's New Asian Kitchen. Ginger and Chrysanthemum, her debut picture book, draws from these memories as well as the antics of her two children and their cousins.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm

Wow...what a picture book! You can't tell me that there isn't something to be gained from reading picture books. Last Flight is loosely based on the experience of Kristen Mai Giang and her siblings as they fled Saigon, Vietnam on the final flight April 24, 1975, on a PanAmerica plane. I've learned q......more

Goodreads review by Monobella

I recommend everyone the read this story about how Kristen Mai Giang and her family was on the last flight with 400 passengers out of Saigon six days before the city surrendered to the north Vietnamese army. Listen to the audiobook but if I have read it physically and seen the illustrations it would......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

It may seem difficult to share the realities of war with children, but they are fascinated and this picture book is a great way to introduce the history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam war.......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

The illustrations by Dow Phumiruk truly make this story of the last flight out before the fall of Saigon truly come alive. Her mixed media artwork-pencil, Photoshop, watercolor, acrylic-fill the page and evoke the emotions that the sparse text can only do in a limited way. Told from the perspective......more