The Little Engine that Could: Choo Choo Charlie Saves the Carnival by Megan E. Bryant, based on the original story by Watty Piper, illustrated by Cristina Ong [in AsianWeek]
30 Apr, by in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
When the carnival comes to town, all the engines help set up the tents and rides together. While Choo Choo Charlie doesn’t like being bossed around, he learns that even the smallest...
Even while his energetic young body is capable of many things, Little Badger still has much to learn from Old Badger’s love and experience.
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Told in the alternating voices of two Chinese American girls – American-born Sarah and recently arrived Ting – Cheng captures the story of an unlikely friendship. While Sarah and Ting, both fourth graders, may...
Is it a textbook? Is it a comic book? It’s both, it’s neither. It’s a unique (and clever!) hybrid made up of 30 lessons that use manga to teach basic conversational Japanese....
When Kim moves from the farm to the big city, she wishes for new friends. As she and her father chase after her dog, Chip, who runs off without his...
Where the Bad Things Are
Set in early 19th-century Korea, The Firekeeper’s Son is the very first picture book for Newbery Award-winner 
Every Saturday, a young boy pedals his bike to his grandmother’s house where she is waiting for him to share their weekly ritual which includes hot biscuits, the smell of cut grass,...
A colorful, fun book that affirms and celebrates a boy’s countless accomplishments, from riding a bike to feeding the cat to letting the fireflies go to being a good sport to saying...
Told from a young Asian adoptee girl’s point of view, this straightforward story is a reassuring look at how families can be formed by adoption, and that all families are...
A collection of five interconnected short stories about five different women going about their lives, singularly alone. While these women seem to be live quiet, detached lives, they are each on the verge of...
An absolutely stunning, breathtaking collection of photos by a self-described Japanese geographer and geography teacher who, over the past 26 years, has traveled to all of China’s 28 provinces and taken over 10,000 photographs....
The latest novel from the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Launderette, about an older famous writer who is given the chance to trade his weathered body for something much younger and healthier… but youth can...
It starts out interestingly – although predictably – enough with a Chinese great-grandmother whose Gold Mountain husband returns with great riches, a grandmother who marries down but is saved from the Cultural Revolution by...
A wide-ranging collection of 25 essays that share a common focus on films from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even the Chinese/U.S. crossover blockbuster, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon....
Written and illustrated by two Korean adoptees, Cooper's Lesson is a meaningful story about a young hapa Korean boy who, in a moment of frustration, steals a hairbrush for his mother, gets caught, and...
La La Rose, a stuffed pink rabbit, gets separated from her beloved little girl, Clementine. With the help of various park visitors, La La Rose finally finds her way back into the...
A whimsical nonsense tale about three old women out on an anything-but-wise adventure, who may or may not ever make it home ...
A superbly detailed, wordless journey through Spain with the blue-capped guide on horseback from the award-winning creator of Anno's Journey and Anno's U.S.A.
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Lyrical collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by one of Asia's most famous authors. The title story is a heartbreaking memory piece of a boy's first years that captures through young,...