Leizu: Empress of the Silkworm    by Alex Rounds
Price: $0.99 USD. 1880 words. Language: English. Published by LearningIsland.com  on March 4, 2013. Nonfiction » Children's Books » Biography & Autobiography / Historical.
In the days not long after the pharaohs in Egypt, there lived a woman in China. Leizu (say lee - zhoo) was an empress. She lived in a beautiful palace in China. The palace had a huge garden filled with many trees and flowers. Leizu and her husband, Hoangti loved to walk through their gardens. Read of how she discovered the secret of turning the cocoon of the silkworm into into silk cloth.