The islands of pearl, my second home: A bilingual children's book on the theme of migration

• Main Author: Yun, Yun Wang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2624
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Islands of Pearl, My Second Home is a children's storybook that highlights the theme of migration. Through this book, the author presents her own experiences as a little girl, in the character of, dou Dou. The main character migrates with her family to Philippines and there she meets new friends with different cultural backgrounds and who look far different from her. This book discusses the various problems, faced by Dou Dou such as adjusting to a new environment, having a hard time making friends, and understanding the culture and traditions of this new place but eventually doing well in the foreign country, she now consider as her second home. Both the story and illustration will be well-loved by boys and girls aged 5-7 years old. This book is not only designed for English or Chinese language learners as it also caters to the Filipino-Chinese children since the book is bilingual in nature.