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Dragonfly Kites by Tomson Highway, illustrated by Julie Flett [in Booklist]

18 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost

Brothers Joe and Cody, their parents, and Cody’s dog, Ootsie, spend each summer near one of the hundreds of lakes in northern Manitoba, Canada. By naming and playing with sticks, stones, and even small animals, the brothers have no shortage of available “friends.” Their favorite...

Little White Lies by Brianna Baker and F. Bowman Hastie III [in Booklist]

14 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Because she “can no longer idly sit by and consume the Little White Lies that [her] parents tell,” Coretta channels her frustration into a debut blog post about power, politics, mixed-race identity, Afros, and Rosa Parks. The blog goes viral, and Coretta’s 4.0, extracurriculars, college...

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee [in Christian Science Monitor]

13 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Korean American, Repost

'The Expatriates' explores three overlapping lives in Hong Kong While Janice Y.K. Lee’s The Expatriates might be one of your first reads of this new year, you will not be allowed to forget this book as 2016 draws to a close. Mark my words: The Expatriates...

A Beginner’s Guide to Bear Spotting by Michelle Robinson, illustrated by David Roberts [in Booklist]

12 Jan, by SIBookDragon in British, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Going for a walk in “bear country” could be very dangerous business, unless you heed the wise advice of this intrepid child, whose well-stocked, oversize backpack contains all the many things necessary to negotiate potential sightings. When confronted by a black or brown bear, pepper spray...

Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth (Book 1) by Judd Winick

08 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Given all the anti-immigrant hubbub in the news, Hilo is an absolutely surprising standout, least of all because the blonde, sometimes blue-eyed (not on the cover, but check pages 8 and 33, for example) hero here turns out to be the alien. Yup, Hilo (as in 'high-low')...

The Only Child by Guojing

07 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha

The single-page "author's note" which introduces this stupendous, otherwise-wordless wonder is a full story unto itself: Guojing reveals her lonely childhood growing up in 1980s China under the one-child policy. Her parents worked, and she was often cared for by her grandmother. But sometimes when...

Shelter by Jung Yun [in Library Journal]

05 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Faced with financial crisis, college professor Kyung Cho and his wife, Gillian, are considering selling their overmortgaged home. During the initial realtor meeting, the couple discovers Kyung's mother wandering disoriented and naked beyond their backyard. Kyung misunderstands his mother's garbled Korean – the language she...

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...

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...

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...

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