Magic Spring: A Korean Folktale by Nami Rhee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
04 Mar, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost
A hardworking, childless elderly couple are led to the fountain of youth by a mysterious bluebird and warned to take just a sip. Their greedy neighbor hears about their discovery, rushes to the magic...
"Shorty," a young Japanese American boy, and his family are forcibly relocated to an American concentration camp during World War II. There, in order to help the children survive the barbed wire...
Donnie’s friends always force him to play the enemy because, as a Japanese American, he looks like "them." But Donnie’s valiantly father served in World War II and his uncle fought in Korea. His friends want...
Hoi, a young Chinese boy, arrives in America in 1865 to work on the railroads. Because his favorite food is American pies, his friends rename him "Pie-Biter." He quickly grows to be a strong young man....
Every year, the extended Yang family gathers from all over the Hawaiian island of Oahu at Grandma’s house to celebrate New Year’s Eve. This year, young Marisa will help make the dumplings for Grandma’s...
In spite of the wicked machinations of her stepmother, the beautiful young Yeh-Shen manages to survive her deprived life. With the help of a beloved fish and a mysterious old sage, she even marries...
Shin so believes in the reality of his friend Tasuke’s dream of finding gold that he "buys" the dream and borrows money before setting off to find the treasure. Arriving...
When the world’s first atomic bomb detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, young Mii was sitting at breakfast with her mother and father. Remarkably, the family survived the blast that day,...
At a beautiful day at the beach, Xiao Ming learns to write Chinese characters with his mother in the sand. To Xiao Ming, the characters are much like drawing simple pictures: a...
During a winter walk through the forest, Xiao Ming’s mother teaches him new Chinese characters, using the white snow to draw the picture-like characters. Delightful companion title to 
During a drought, the Toad decides to ask the King of Heaven for rain. On his journey, he is joined by the Bees, the Rooster, and...
Beautiful Lotus is unable to hear or speak. Ostracized by the other children, she is lonely and sad. Her parents take her to the local temple where she sees temple dancers for the first...
Ling-Li prepares for her marriage by creating a beautiful wedding robe. A wealthy, jealous village girl tries to steal it, but magpies carry it away. Ling-Li follows the...
Tiffany and Kevin, two Japanese American children, move to Japan because of their father’s job. While they might look like "chopsticks among other chopsticks," they are American, which proves to be very...
The stranger Mr. Oh requests to borrow a huge sum of money from wealthy Sir Whong in order to help his ill mother. He offers a...
A man is tricked into saving a tiger trapped in a pit, but once freed, the tiger intends to eat his savior. The man insists they get a second opinion, first from a tree...
The court physician advises the ill Dragon King of the East Sea that in order to recover, he needs the raw liver of a rabbit. The turtle volunteers to bring back a rabbit from...
A beautiful collection of stories, poetry, remembrances, and art focusing on the tragedies caused by war, and the hopes for a lasting peace for today’s children. A book...
After learning about Sadako Sasaki, a young Hiroshima bomb victim who folded thousands of paper cranes in hopes of prolonging her life, a young American girl folds a crane of her own and wishes...
Despite outward differences in skin color or diversity in facial characteristics, all children on the inside are basically the same, and each deserves to be loved...