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Last Airlift Takes Manhattan

February 11th, 2013

Bookworm Buddies, the blog of the Manhattan Public Library, recently posted this review of Last Airlift: “When this book came in, I started flipping through it at my desk because the topic reminded me of a Laotian refugee who was in my class when I was in 2nd grade.  I had to give up my […]

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Canadian Children’s Book News calls Last Airlift”Thought-provoking, heartrending and inspirational”

May 30th, 2012

“Thought-provoking, heartrending and inspirational, author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s first non-fiction book chronicles one woman’s account of a little-known piece of Canadian history: the Ontario government-sponsored Operation “Babylift.” In April 1975, South Vietnamese orphans were airlifted from Saigon and flown to Ontario where they were adopted by Canadian families. This military maneuver saved interracial babies (with […]

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Last Airlift reviewed inBulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

May 25th, 2012

“…Skrypuch, who originally intended Tuyet’s experience to take the form of a novel, opted instead for a nonfiction presentation as interviews helped Tuyet reclaim many of her early memories and participate in retelling her own story. This biographical approach helps to humanize a war that, for most readers, may seem like ancient history, and the […]

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