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The Moose of Ewenki by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane, illustrated by Jiu Er, translated by Helen Mixter [in Shelf Awareness]

02 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Mongolian, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW From the Reindeer Ewenki people of remote, mountainous Inner Mongolia comes a glorious tale about an aging hunter and the baby moose that followed him home. During an all-night hunting trip, Gree Shek killed a moose, not knowing she had calved out of season....

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses

18 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Egyptian, European, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Nonfiction, Persian, Turkish, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Black Flame

25 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Tibetan, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Black Flame by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane, translated by Anna Holmwood

08 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Tibetan, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Winner of China's National Children's Literature Award, Black Flame is an engrossing, often heartstring-pulling adventure told from the point of view of a majestic, lion-like, blue-black Tibetan Mastiff. Two things kept going through my head as the pages turned swiftly: 1. the novel reads like an older...

The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce, photography by Carl Hunter and Clare Heney

16 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Young Adult Readers

I know it says "Afterword" for a reason, but sometimes starting from the back of a book (must be an Asian thing!) feels just right. In this latest title from British author/screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions – which was also a pretty good film – and Framed), the...

The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses by Shirin Yim Bridges, illustrated by Albert Nguyen

21 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Egyptian, European, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Persian, Turkish

Hatshepsut of Egypt Artemisia of Caria Sorghaghtani of Mongolia Qutlugh Terkan Khatun of Kirman Isabella of Castile Nur Jahan of India Happy birthday to the world's most famous queen (still!) who turns 85 today, making her son the oldest prince-waiting-to-be-king in British history. Next week, on April 29, Queen E2 will...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

29 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Biography, Mongolian, Nonfiction

Hurray (itself a word of Mongol origin) for cultural anthropologist and Macalester College professor Jack Weatherford who reclaims Genghis Khan from a much maligned history that defines him as "the quintessential barbarian," leading an...

Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Robert Byrd

19 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Mongolian, Nonfiction

Let's start with the last pages first: Kathleen Krull notes in her "Author's Note" that "[i]nformation about Kubla Khan is sketchy." Her illustrator Robert Byrd adds that "[p]ictoral references dealing with the...

Animals Marco Polo Saw: An Adventure on the Silk Road by Sandra Markle, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini

29 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, European, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Nonfiction

Marco Polo sure got around in his time, way back in the 13th century! And what a great way to show our instant-access, Web-addicted kids just how incredible the Polo family's adventures were – for any generation! The latest in Chronicle Books' (that great indie San...

The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag, translated by Katharina Rout [in San Francisco Chronicle]

24 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Memoir, Mongolian, Repost, Translation, Tuvan, Young Adult Readers

blue-sky Far atop the High Altai Mountains in western Mongolia is an unpredictable climate of extremes – breathtaking in its warmer beauty, yet unforgiving in the harshness of its frigid months. Unknown to most Westerners, the Republic...

The Khan’s Daughter: A Mongolian Folktale by Laurence Yep, illustrated by Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Mongolian, Repost

Khan's Daughter Lively tale of a poor man’s son who wins the hand of the Khan’s daughter through pure luck, faith, and eventually humility, in spite of demons, enemy armies, a mysterious warrior, and of course,...

Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China by Yosano Akiko, translated by Joshua A. Fogel [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Japanese, Memoir, Mongolian, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation

Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia Early 20th-century Japanese feminist poet's memorable road trip east. You go, girl! Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002 Readers: Adult Published: 2001 (United States)...

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