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Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang + Author Interview [in Bloom]

21 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Ever since she was a child, Janie Chang was steeped in family tales she inherited from her parents about the generations that came before. For decades, she remained the family’s repository until, at age 53, she presented the world with her debut novel, Three Souls,...

The Year of the Rooster: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin, illustrated by Juan Calle

27 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

Well holy, moly! How did a dozen years fly by so quickly?! San Francisco indie press Immedium’s 12-part Tales from the Chinese Zodiac, written by founding publisher and author Oliver Chin, comes full circle with a final, rousing cock-a-doodle-dooooo!! Mama and Papa welcome Ray to their flock, earning his name...

Moo by Sharon Creech [in School Library Journal]

04 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Twelve-year-old Reena's outburst during a family conversation about parental careers, geography, and the future "ten years from now" catapults the family from a city of monuments, subways, and museums and lands them in rural Maine. Her expectations of her new home include lobsters, blueberries, beaches,...

Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky [in Booklist]

02 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Tokyo-born, Berlin-domiciled Yoko Tawada (Facing the Bridge, 2007) returns with another fantastical and entertaining novel that combines a broken family saga, socio-political-environmental enlightenment, a treatise on writing, and bitingly well-placed satire. Seamlessly translated from German by the award-winning Susan Bernofsky, Memoirs of a Polar Bear introduces...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Akiko Miyakoshi’s The Tea Party in the Woods

12 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes’ Secret Coders

02 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with James Kwan’s Dear Yeti

24 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Guojing’s The Only Child

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

You Are My Best Friend by Tatsuya Miyanishi [Tyrannosaurus series 2], translated by Mariko Shii Garbi

12 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

Our favorite Tyrannosaurus is back. In spite of all the kindness he revealed in You Look Yummy, his bad rep seems to have caught up with him: He’s busy being “mean and fierce, nasty and selfish.” But is he really? Just as he's raising his usual threatening ruckus,...

Tokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano, illustrated by Kellen Hatanaka

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

One of my favorite new artists – Japanese Canadian Kellen Hatanaka – debuts his first bookish collaboration with first-time author Jon-Erik Lappano and, together, the talented duo plant some mighty magical seeds. Surrounded (choked?) by the crowded urban sprawl of an overgrown city, Tokyo and his family – including his clever and...

Good Night, Baddies by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Juli Kangas [in Booklist]

24 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

They might be “baddies” by day, but by evening, all the familiar villains (witches, wolves, giants, dragons, trolls, and so on) who make fairy tales so exciting shed their evil ways: “All day long they must be vile; / now, at night, they chat and...

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel [in Library Journal]

05 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, European, Fiction

Divided into three sections – Homeless, Homeward, and Home –that converge in the titular "High Mountains of Portugal," three men epitomize the concepts after which the sections are named. Part 1's Tomás, grieving the loss of his lover and son, takes his uncle's automobile – one...

Can I Tell You a Secret? by Anna Kang, illustrated by Christopher Weyant [in Booklist]

31 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

The wife-and-husband team of Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant make a splash with their third gleeful collaboration. Meet Monty, a frog who has a secret to share with the reader: he is afraid of the water. Though he has managed to stay dry since his...

Hello, Hippo! Goodbye, Bird! by Kristyn Crow, illustrated by Poli Bernatene [in Booklist]

19 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Hippo doesn’t know it yet, but Bird is exactly the friend he needs. Despite Hippo’s insistent rejections (grunts, sighs, definitive cries of “Go away!”), Bird doesn’t give up. Just look! He can be a stylish hat, provide umbrella-like shelter, even stand in for a “hippopota-mustache”! Yet...

FukuFuku: Kitten Tales (vol. 1) by Konami Kanata, translated by Marlaina McElheny and Ed Chavez

18 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation

From the creator of the internationally bestselling Chi's Sweet Home series comes another frolicking feline with irresistible energy. As an elderly woman reminisces about the early days of her now overgrown (still adorable) cat, FukuFuku, her photos become a portal back to kittenhood: "You really were so very...

Rattlestiltskin by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Erin Camarca [in Booklist]

05 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost

Grimm’s familiar tale gets a Southwestern rendering in Caldecott Honor-winner Eric A. Kimmel’s retelling, with “the best tortillas” as the golden standard. Señora Gonzalez boasts that her daughter Rosalia’s tortillas “are so light, they float like clouds.” The town’s richest man, Don Ignacio, summons Rosalia...

Dear Bunny … by Katie Cotton, illustrated by Bianca Gómez [in Booklist]

28 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Repost

A little girl answers her bunny’s question of “What’s your favourite thing in the world?” in a sweetly revealing letter. She chronicles their day together, listing everything she likes to do with her furry buddy, from choosing socks to appreciating how her bunny cools her...

The Tea Party in the Woods by Akiko Miyakoshi

18 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

Perhaps "fractured fairy tale" isn't the most inviting descriptor, but the growing genre of parodied, subverted new versions of familiar stories can be fabulously enticing, not to mention downright inventive and – oxymoronic as it sounds – incredibly original. Thanks to Canada's marvelous indie Kids Can...

Dear Yeti by James Kwan

10 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

Ready for an adventure with big bad beasts in a battle to the death against the fiercest elements? What? Not tonight? How about something a bit more ...

The Year of the Monkey: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin, illustrated by Kenji Ono

08 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese American

Today is Lunar New Year ...

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