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Rose’s Garden by Peter H. Reynolds

09 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Here's a joyful little gift to share with your children over the long weekend ...

Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan by Jeanette Winter

06 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Afghan, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

Nasreen watches her father being taken away by the Taliban, then loses her mother when she goes out in search of her disappeared husband. Left alone with her grandmother, Nasreen retreats into silence. Her desperate grandmother enrolls Nasreen in a secret school for girls, risking...

So Few of Me by Peter H. Reynolds

30 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Certain kiddie authors whose books that my children have outgrown I can't bear to part with – in fact, I keep buying their latest titles anyway, even as my children have moved on to Steinbeck (our now-teenage daughter) and Cisneros (our tween son) to keep...

The Octonauts & the Great Ghost Reef by Meomi

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

First a little note about the creators: Meomi is a dynamic design duo made up of Vicki Wong, based in Vancouver, and Michael Murphy, who calls Los Angeles home. Together, they also happen to write adorable, colorful kiddie books ...

Boy Dumplings by Ying Chang Compestine, illustrated by James Yamasaki

23 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese American

Missing his usual buckets of left-out food (garbage, unbeknownst to him), a hungry Beijing ghost happens upon a plump little boy out too late with his lantern. The ghost traps his tasty morsel, hurries home, thinking he's going to have a special feast. But the...

In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage by Alan Schroeder, illustrated by JaeMe Bereal

16 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books

Thank goodness young Augusta Savage had a supportive mother to balance out her discouraging father who crushed her youthful sculpture beneath his feet to prevent her from wasting time. "You ought to be reading the Bible instead," her preacher father insisted, "cultivating your mind, saving...

Moonlight Memoirs: Remembering that Family and Friends are Forever by Maggie Mei Lewis, illustrated by Melody Lea Lamb

26 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Two young mice, out "on a cold, lonely night," meet a mysterious older mouse who leads them to a magical place where "departed loves ones" appear to remind the two adventurers that they will never be alone. "They're not truly gone, but watch over you...

My Papa Diego and Me: Memories of My Father and His Art by Guadalupe Rivera Marín and Diego Rivera

25 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction

Guadalupe Rivera Marín grew up inspiring her legendary artist father, the Mexican muralist and sculptor Diego Rivera. Marin chooses some of her favorite works by her father – including a few for which she sat as his model – and shares both memories and lessons of...

First Come the Zebra by Lynne Barasch

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

Out on the Kenyan grasslands, millions of animals will take turns grazing on the lush greenery after the rainy season during their great migration from neighboring Tanzania. First the zebra will eat only the very top of the grass, followed by the wildebeest who will...

Balarama: A Royal Elephant by Ted and Betsy Lewin

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Indian, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, South Asian

Husband-and-wife author/illustrators, Ted Lewin and Betsy Lewin, who also happen to both be individual Caldecott Honor winners, travel the world in search of adventure. Their latest book together combines the experiences of two trips to Mysore, India in 1997 and 1998 during which they came up close...

The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan by Christy Hale

31 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Nonfiction

Born in Los Angeles to a Scotch-Irish American mother, Leonie Gilmour, and a missing Japanese father, the young boy who would grow up to be Isamu Noguchi moved as toddler to Japan to join his estranged father. When Gilmour realized that the older Noguchi already had...

If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States by David J. Smith, illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

Using the same simple metaphor he used in his previous bestselling If the World Were a Village, educational consultant David J. Smith presents America as a village of 100 (a far less intimidating number than the 306 million we’ve become!) to help kids (and anyone...

A Gift by Yong Chen

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Every Chinese New Year, Amy’s mother feels particularly homesick for her family living on the other side of the world in China. This year, a package arrives with a letter that tells the story of a remarkable stone found in Uncle Zhong’s fields, that was...

My School in the Rain Forest: How Children Attend School Around the World by Margriet Ruurs

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Wherever you are in the world, education is a key element to a more fulfilling life. Ruurs, herself an education specialist, celebrated the love of reading in her award-winning previous title, My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World....

Hook by Ed Young

18 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

The Caldecott Medalist Ed Young does it again ...

Tsunami! by Kimiko Kajikawa, illustrated by Ed Young

16 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American

High atop a mountain lives a wealthy, wise, kind old man everyone calls Ojiisan, which means 'grandfather' in Japanese. While the rest of the village gathers to celebrate the annual rice ceremony, Ojiisan chooses to stay home, feeling something is not quite right. His prescience...

I and I: Bob Marley by Tony Medina, illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson

05 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction, Poetry

A gorgeously rendered collection of poems that capture the colorful life of Nesta Robert Marley, born in 1945 to a young island girl just 18 and a 63-year-old British white man in a small town in Jamaica. Although his father quickly abandoned the young family,...

Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Lin Wang

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Korean American, Nonfiction

A fabulous biography for the youngest readers about the first-ever bonafide Asian American superstar. And what a figure she was ...

Freckleface Strawberry and Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully by Julianne Moore, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

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

Just look at the energy that jumps off even these tiny thumbnail covers. What's not to love? In her debut, our spunky heroine, whom everyone calls Freckleface Strawberry, needs to "get rid of her freckles fast." She tries everything from scrubbing them off, coloring herself with...

Cora Cooks Pancit by Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, illustrated by Kristi Valiant

14 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Southeast Asian American

Young Cora is tired of just licking the spoons and not being able to really help in the kitchen. One day when her four older siblings are all out of the house, Cora sees her chance to make something special with her mother, just them...

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