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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Rafael López

28 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Cuban, Cuban American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction

Thank the stars for all the women who never succumbed to 'you can't' and 'you're not allowed,' and the constant cacophony of insistent 'no's. Meet another such hero: drum dream girl. In spite of her strikingly diverse heritage – Chinese, African, and Cuban! – all her elders agree...

Is Mommy? by Victoria Chang, illustrated by Marla Frazee

24 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Taiwanese American

Mothers, you will relate. Meet your bluntly honest children. Ask your little one a question about yourself – all the while hoping for a smidge of uplifting compliment or encouraging understanding – and what you'll probably get is not exactly what you anticipated. You've been warned! These little wonders just aren't capable of...

That’s (Not) Mine by Anna Kang, illustrated by Christopher Weyant

23 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific

The wife-and-husband team of Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant debuted the most ingenious use of (title) parentheses with You Are (Not) Small, and promptly won the 2015 (Theodore Seuss) Geisel Award, given annually to "the most distinguished American book for beginning readers." Lucky for their audiences, the screenwriter/New Yorker-cartoonist...

Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, translated by Sora Kim-Russell

22 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Translation

Korean narratives of disconnect and ennui arriving Stateside in recent translations seem to be on the verge of becoming an imported genre. Noteworthy titles over the past few years include Young-ha Kim's I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Kyung Ran Jo's Tongue, and the forthcoming The Vegetarian by...

Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq

18 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Arab American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Palestinian, Palestinian American, Young Adult Readers

"I believe that art is an essential element of revolution," Leila Abdelrazaq begins her "Artist Statement" on her website. She's half Palestinian and half American activist based in Chicago with a 2015 DePaul University degree who has generations of stories to share. Her Baddawi began as a webcomic "...

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by Margarita Engle

17 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Exactly a year ago today, POTUS and Cuba's President Raúl Castro announced a joint agreement reestablishing relations between two countries that have maintained a complicated half-century plus of separation. Released December 17, 2014, the official Cuba Policy Changes have made the island nation quite the destination of...

Author Interview: Yiyun Li [in Asian American Literary Review]

15 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

To become a writer, Yiyun Li left behind everything familiar: her birth country (China), her first language (Mandarin), her family (parents and sister), her scientific training (immunology), and her PhD degree (University of Iowa). On the other side of the world, she switched into the...

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

14 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Han Kang, a South Korean writing professor with Iowa Writers Workshop training, makes her English-translation debut with this spare, spectacular novel, in which a multigenerational, seemingly traditional Seoul family implodes. Yeong-hye, the youngest of three adult children, repeatedly announces "I had a dream," violent, bloody,...

The Gap of Time [Hogarth Shakespeare] by Jeanette Winterson [in Library Journal]

10 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, British, Fiction, Repost

Jeanette Winterson inaugurates “The Hogarth Shakespeare” series – “a major international project [that] will see Shakespeare’s plays reimagined by some of today’s bestselling and most celebrated writers” – with a contemporary reinvention of The Winter’s Tale. In Winterson’s version, the setting moves between post-2008 market-crashed London and a...

Ask Me by Bernard Waber, illustrated by Suzy Lee

08 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean, Nonethnic-specific

Although Bernard Waber passed away in 2013 (at 91!), he's left quite the literary legacy – most especially his beloved, readily recognized Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile! series with almost a dozen titles. This, his latest, pubbed posthumously, invoking his signature gentle, emotive style, starring a young girl and her...

The Owner’s Manual to Terrible Parenting by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher

04 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Translation

Just look at that cover! Clearly, the emergency room beckons! Even as you already know what not to do as a parent, these things ...

The Story I’ll Tell by Nancy Tupper Ling, illustrated by Jessica Lanan

03 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

A mother and her toddler son, cuddled together in a cushy chair, are surrounded by soft summer breezes and warm fading light. Together, they read their bedtime book, as the boy is about to drift off to slumberland. While the mother reads aloud, her heart promises...

Ling & Ting: Together in All Weather by Grace Lin

02 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers

Grace Lin’s 'not exactly the same’-twins debuted in 2010, then 'shared a birthday’ a couple of years later, and had 'twice as silly’ adventures together. Five years since they arrived on bookshelves everywhere, they're still Together in All Weather – and yes, they're as whimsically captivating as...

Today Is the Day by Eric Walters, Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

26 Nov, by SIBookDragon in African, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

Today is the third title by Canadians Eric Walters and Eugenie Fernandes that captures real-life events from Walters' The Creation of Hope complex in Kenya. Together, Walters and Fernandes have become quite the dynamic duo in developing an effective series showcasing the inspiring, courageous stories of resilient, caring children...

The Good Little Book by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Marion Arbona

24 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race

Winter is quickly settling around us ...

Moon Bear by Gill Lewis, illustrated by Alessandro Gottardo

23 Nov, by SIBookDragon in British, Fiction, Laotian, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

I'm warning you right up front: get the tissues ready. A tweenage boy forced to live away from his family just after his father's death, a baby bear who has lost his mother, evil-doers bent on suffering and destruction, complicit everyday people made desperate by circumstances – yes, Moon...

You Look Yummy! [Tyrannosaurus series 1] by Tatsuya Miyanishi, translated by Mariko Shii Gharbi

19 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

I admit it: I'm not much of a dinosaur fan – on the page, anyway. Far too many books starring these behemoth beings seem to loom over my desk. That said, every once in a (long) while, I discover an irresistible prehistoric beast with a story that...

Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart [in Booklist]

18 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Says a grateful admirer to Joseph and his unlikely traveling companion, “You boys. You got some kind of courage.” In the Wild West of 1890 Washington State, Joseph, not yet 13, has lost his mother and sister to typhoid and his father to a...

Library Day by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell [in Booklist]

17 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

One fine Saturday a father and son visit a new library together for the first time. While his father explores “the grown-up shelves,” the boy enjoys story hour, makes a new friend, and discovers today’s library is even more than a treasure trove of books....

Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang with Susan McClelland [in Library Journal]

16 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Korean, Memoir, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost

Within mere months, four memoirs – including Stars – by North Korean women hit U.S. shelves: Hyeonseo Lee’s The Girl with Seven Names and Eunsun Kim’s A Thousand Miles to Freedom debuted in July; Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live hit in September; and Stars...

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