Children/Picture Books Archives - Page 17 of 41

Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, illustrated by Susy Pilgrim Waters + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

When I recently caught up with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, she was in one of her rare lull periods at home in Houston, Texas, having finished almost three solid months of book touring for her latest novel, Oleander Girl. Like her latest protagonist, Korobi Roy, a...

Where Do You Look? by Marthe Jocelyn and Nell Jocelyn

28 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Ready for some literal fun? This book is so ingenious, I can hardly stand it! Talk about different ways of seeing ...

No Bath, No Cake! Polly’s Pirate Party by Matthias Weinert, translated by David Henry Wilson

27 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

The morning began with an early birthday in our house before going off to another swim meet. Always the swim meet! Egads, the time passes so quickly, I can't keep up. That the kids are getting older only means I'm getting more ancient. Someone, please...

How Far Do You Love Me? by Lulu Delacre, translated by Verónica Betancourt

23 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Parents, listen up: here's a heart-fluttering game to play with your kiddies, especially perfect just before bedtime to send the little ones off to slumberland. It's as simple as asking the question that is this title, 'How far do you love me?" and then let...

As Fast As Words Could Fly by Pamela M. Tuck, illustrated by Eric Velasquez

21 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

In segregated Greenville, North Carolina, 14-year-old Mason Steele has the rare talent to transcribe his father's impassioned descriptions of civil rights incidents into effective business letters determined to educate and change people's minds. His father's civil rights group rewards young Mason's efforts with a typewriter....

Lost Sloth by J.otto Seibold

20 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Sleeping Sloth is jolted awake by a ringing phone he can't pick up in time. Thank goodness for answering machines (methinks parents might need to explain that anachronistic precursor to voice mail) because the lucky message announces Sloth has won a prize! But oh, no!...

Away We Go! A Shape-and-Seek Book by Chiêu Anh Urban

15 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Vietnamese American

DC-area local Chiêu Anh Urban's second chunky children's book is perhaps even more clever than her first. While Raindrops: A Shower of Colors offered a thoroughly kiddie-friendly lesson in color-making, Away We Go! is an entertaining game in learning shapes. Invitingly packaged in vivid hues,...

Rainbow Stew by Cathryn Falwell

03 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

This week has been especially stormy and wet, so I thought I needed to throw in a rainbow in the midst of bursting clouds. The waking glee of three young children staying with their grandfather quickly turns to "[w]himper, sigh, cloudy sky," when their plans for...

Bella’s Rules by Elissa Haden Guest, illustrated by Abigail Halpin

25 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Meet irresistible, rambunctious, adorable Bella ...

Brush of the Gods by Lenore Look, illustrated by Meilo So

19 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, British Asian, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Somehow, over the last millennium-plus, the life story of Wu Daozi (689-759), possibly China's greatest painter, went mostly missing. Chinese American author Lenore Look (best known for her entertaining double series about growing up bicultural, Alvin Ho and Ruby Lu), together with British Asian illustrator Meilo So, whimsically...

Beyond the Moongate: True Stories of 1920s China by Elizabeth Quan

17 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction

"Moongates dotted the landscape of Old China," the second of artist Elizabeth Quan's two-part childhood memoir begins. "Stepping through one of these doorways was to enter a world of peace and happiness ...

The Favorite Daughter by Allen Say

11 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Memoir

Well, goodness ...

OY FEH SO? by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Gary Clement

06 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Jewish

"Every Sunday my two aunts and my uncle come to visit." This isn't exactly a joyous occasion for the three children who watch from the front window as the old Lincoln arrives in the driveway. They know only too well what to expect: "Oy," sighs...

Truck Stop by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Melissa Iwai

22 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American, Nonethnic-specific

When our son broke his little toddler wrist (one of those moments parents will always remember in slow motion), he was so attached to his truck-of-the-moment that his chubby fingers never let go of this mini-vehicle even during his x-ray. Now that he's almost ready...

Three Years and Eight Months by Icy Smith, illustrated by Jennifer Kindert

08 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

Parents with young children: please take caution in sharing this book with your youngest readers. Although the narrator is "only a 10-year-old boy," what he witnesses, endures, and survives during the titular 'three years and eight months' of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during...

What a Party! by Ana Maria Machado, illustrated by Hélène Moreau, translated by Elisa Amado

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, South American, Translation

In the same delightful, sequential fun of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – if you do x, then y happens – Brazilian überauthor of more than a hundred books, Ana Maria Machado, puts on a party of epic proportions. "If a few days before your birthday your mother should...

Hello in There! A Big Sister’s Book of Waiting by Jo Witek, illustrated by Christine Roussey

02 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

For anyone with a child who will soon become an older sibling, this book is IT. And if that lucky elder happens to be a sister-in-waiting, this couldn't be more perfect. "You're in there and I'm out here, outside Mama's belly. I'm waiting for you!" the...

Pot-San’s Tabletop Tales by Satoshi Kitamura

29 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese

Way back in the day, when I fancied myself at least a part-time potter, I used to think I put some tangible personality into my pieces, especially my dancing tea cups and goofy tea pots. So how delighted I was to discover adorable Pot-san – he...

Nini by François Thisdale

23 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Translation

Created by the illustrator of the mesmerizing, award-winning The Stamp Collector, Nini may be François Thisdale's most personal story – it's directly inspired by his experience about the adoption of his own daughter. "It was a wonderful challenge, having to say intimate things with words and images," he reveals...

The Deep, Deep Puddle by Mary Jessie Parker, illustrated by Deborah Zemke

17 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

"On a busy street in the late afternoon, the rain begins ...

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