
Title: I am Brown
Author: Ashok Banker
Illustrator: Sandhya Prabhat
Publisher: Lantana Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: A celebration of the skin you are in, along with the language you speak, the food you eat, the art you make, where you live, what you wear, and who you are.
Curriculum Notes: school library, SEL: love yourself
Author: Ashok Banker
Illustrator: Sandhya Prabhat
Publisher: Lantana Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: A celebration of the skin you are in, along with the language you speak, the food you eat, the art you make, where you live, what you wear, and who you are.
Curriculum Notes: school library, SEL: love yourself

Title: Ruby’s Wish
Author: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2002
Summary: Ruby loved the color red even though in China it was reserved for celebrations. Ruby’s wish was to one day to go to the university, but girl’s in China were to get married instead. This book is inspired by the author’s grandmother.
Curriculum Notes: school library
Author: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2002
Summary: Ruby loved the color red even though in China it was reserved for celebrations. Ruby’s wish was to one day to go to the university, but girl’s in China were to get married instead. This book is inspired by the author’s grandmother.
Curriculum Notes: school library

Title: The Umbrella Queen
Author: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrator: Taeeun Yoo
Publisher: Green Willowbooks
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: Noot lived in the high hills of Thailand. She learned how to make umbrellas from her father, but she wanted to learn how to paint the umbrellas like her mother. However, Noot liked painting elephants, not butterflies and flowers. She practiced painting her elephants on umbrellas for dolls and placed them in her window not realizing that the King would notice them.
Curriculum Notes: school library, SEL: be yourself
Author: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrator: Taeeun Yoo
Publisher: Green Willowbooks
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: Noot lived in the high hills of Thailand. She learned how to make umbrellas from her father, but she wanted to learn how to paint the umbrellas like her mother. However, Noot liked painting elephants, not butterflies and flowers. She practiced painting her elephants on umbrellas for dolls and placed them in her window not realizing that the King would notice them.
Curriculum Notes: school library, SEL: be yourself

Title: I am Golden
Author: Eva Chen
Illustrator: Sophie Diao
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: In Progress, 3/2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Eva Chen
Illustrator: Sophie Diao
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: In Progress, 3/2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Hot Pot Night
Author: Vincent Chen
Illustrator: Vincent Chen
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: This book is about two neighbors coming together to make a hot pot dinner together. Each person provides an ingredients and together they chop and prepare the food. The illustrations in this book bring the evening to life with limited text, while all the plates of food and ingredients throughout the pages bring the excitement.
Curriculum Notes: How-to writing, Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, pair with No Kimchi For Me to learn about different foods from other countries, school library.
Author: Vincent Chen
Illustrator: Vincent Chen
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: This book is about two neighbors coming together to make a hot pot dinner together. Each person provides an ingredients and together they chop and prepare the food. The illustrations in this book bring the evening to life with limited text, while all the plates of food and ingredients throughout the pages bring the excitement.
Curriculum Notes: How-to writing, Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, pair with No Kimchi For Me to learn about different foods from other countries, school library.

Title: Sam and the Lucky Money
Author: Karen Chinn
Illustrator: Cornelius Van Wright (outside culture) & Ying-Hwa Hu
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Publication Year: 1995
Summary: Sam cannot decide what to purchase with his New Year’s leisees on his trip to Chinatown. He kicks a pile of newspaper and is startled by a homeless man wearing no shoes or socks with all the excitement surrounding him in the streets of Chinatown. The image of the man stays with Sam as he continues to shop for something to buy with his leisees.
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, homelessness, compassion, holidays
Author: Karen Chinn
Illustrator: Cornelius Van Wright (outside culture) & Ying-Hwa Hu
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Publication Year: 1995
Summary: Sam cannot decide what to purchase with his New Year’s leisees on his trip to Chinatown. He kicks a pile of newspaper and is startled by a homeless man wearing no shoes or socks with all the excitement surrounding him in the streets of Chinatown. The image of the man stays with Sam as he continues to shop for something to buy with his leisees.
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, homelessness, compassion, holidays

Title: The Ocean Calls, A Haenyeo Mermaid Story
Author: Tina Cho
Illustrator: Jess X. Snow
Publisher: Kokila/Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Dayeon wants to learn to dive in the ocean and be a Haenyeo like her grandmother. As her grandma dives and retrieves treasures from the sea, Dayeon tries her best to dive deeper and deeper each time until they have to return to their boat at the end of the day.
Curriculum Notes: school library
Author: Tina Cho
Illustrator: Jess X. Snow
Publisher: Kokila/Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Dayeon wants to learn to dive in the ocean and be a Haenyeo like her grandmother. As her grandma dives and retrieves treasures from the sea, Dayeon tries her best to dive deeper and deeper each time until they have to return to their boat at the end of the day.
Curriculum Notes: school library

Title: The Name Jar
Author: Yangsook Choi
Illustrator: Yangsook Choi
Publisher: Dragon Books
Publication Year: 2001
Summary: Unhei is nervous about school and the students won’t be able to pronounce her name. She tells them she hasn’t picked a name yet. The students create a “Name Jar” to help Unhei choose her new name. Then, one day the jar disappears.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, First week of school
Author: Yangsook Choi
Illustrator: Yangsook Choi
Publisher: Dragon Books
Publication Year: 2001
Summary: Unhei is nervous about school and the students won’t be able to pronounce her name. She tells them she hasn’t picked a name yet. The students create a “Name Jar” to help Unhei choose her new name. Then, one day the jar disappears.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, First week of school

Title: A Place for Mulan
Author: Marie Chow
Illustrator: Jasper Shaw
Publisher: Disney Enterprises
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Mulan was a spirited girl and didn’t quite fit in with the expectations at home. Paying attention was difficult. Then, one day she takes a walk with her father and her perspective of herself changes everything.
Curriculum Notes: SEL: acceptance, school library
Author: Marie Chow
Illustrator: Jasper Shaw
Publisher: Disney Enterprises
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Mulan was a spirited girl and didn’t quite fit in with the expectations at home. Paying attention was difficult. Then, one day she takes a walk with her father and her perspective of herself changes everything.
Curriculum Notes: SEL: acceptance, school library

Title: Ninja!
Author: Arree Chung
Illustrator: Arree Chung
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: A boy gathers his ninja tools, practices his ninja moves, and goes on his mission only to train another ninja.
Curriculum Notes: school library
Author: Arree Chung
Illustrator: Arree Chung
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: A boy gathers his ninja tools, practices his ninja moves, and goes on his mission only to train another ninja.
Curriculum Notes: school library

Title: The Chinese Emperor’s New Clothes
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: David Roberts (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Authors
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: A clever retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale. Ming Da becomes the emperor of China when he is 9 years old. The elder ministers take advantage of this and steal from him. Ming Da asks his tailor to make him ‘magical’ new clothes that only honest people can see. When he tricks the ministers, they pay for their alterations in gold, jewels, and rice. Ming Na uses the gold and jewels to purchase clothes for the children and uses the rice to feed the people.
Curriculum Notes: fairy tales, school library
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: David Roberts (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Authors
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: A clever retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale. Ming Da becomes the emperor of China when he is 9 years old. The elder ministers take advantage of this and steal from him. Ming Da asks his tailor to make him ‘magical’ new clothes that only honest people can see. When he tricks the ministers, they pay for their alterations in gold, jewels, and rice. Ming Na uses the gold and jewels to purchase clothes for the children and uses the rice to feed the people.
Curriculum Notes: fairy tales, school library

Title: Crouching Tiger
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Yan Nascimbene (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Candlewick
Publication Year: 2011
Summary: In Progress 3/2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Yan Nascimbene (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Candlewick
Publication Year: 2011
Summary: In Progress 3/2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: The Real Story of Stone Soup
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Stephane Jorisch (outside culture)
Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books
Publication Year: 2007
Summary: A fisherman in China tells the real story of stone soup without a pot, a fish, vegetables, or eggs. It is the best soup he has eaten and it is made with stones.
Curriculum Notes: folktales, China
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Stephane Jorisch (outside culture)
Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books
Publication Year: 2007
Summary: A fisherman in China tells the real story of stone soup without a pot, a fish, vegetables, or eggs. It is the best soup he has eaten and it is made with stones.
Curriculum Notes: folktales, China

Title: The Runaway Rice Cake
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Tungwai Chau
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Year: 2001
Summary: The Chinese version of the Gingerbread Man. The Chang family steams a rice cake on New Year’s and it comes to life. The rice cake sends the Chang Family chasing it all over the village until Grandmother needs something to eat. In exchange for their kindness, the villagers appear at the Chang’s door with food for them to eat.
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, Fairy tale comparisons to Gingerbread Man, sharing
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Tungwai Chau
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Year: 2001
Summary: The Chinese version of the Gingerbread Man. The Chang family steams a rice cake on New Year’s and it comes to life. The rice cake sends the Chang Family chasing it all over the village until Grandmother needs something to eat. In exchange for their kindness, the villagers appear at the Chang’s door with food for them to eat.
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, Fairy tale comparisons to Gingerbread Man, sharing

Title: The Runaway Wok
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Sebastià Serra (outside culture)
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Year: 2011
Summary: In Progress 3/2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrator: Sebastià Serra (outside culture)
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Year: 2011
Summary: In Progress 3/2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Chirri & Chirra on the Town
Author: Kaya Doi
Illustrator: Kaya Doi
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: This adventure of Chirri and Chirra begins with a stop at the yarn store, a pedal through the forest, an arrival at the cloth shop to see the weaver, a stop at a beautiful house where they are invited into the rose garden by a bird, and then dusk comes.
Curriculum Notes: Community, sequence the story
Author: Kaya Doi
Illustrator: Kaya Doi
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: This adventure of Chirri and Chirra begins with a stop at the yarn store, a pedal through the forest, an arrival at the cloth shop to see the weaver, a stop at a beautiful house where they are invited into the rose garden by a bird, and then dusk comes.
Curriculum Notes: Community, sequence the story

Title: Chirri & Chirra in the Tall Grass
Author: Kaya Doi
Illustrator: Kaya Doi
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: Chirri and Chirra ride their bikes through the meadow in front of their house. They visit the houses of the bees, the flower chafers, and the lizards before their imaginary adventures comes to an end when dusk falls over the meadow and they ride home.
Curriculum Notes: ecosystems, sequence the story
Author: Kaya Doi
Illustrator: Kaya Doi
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: Chirri and Chirra ride their bikes through the meadow in front of their house. They visit the houses of the bees, the flower chafers, and the lizards before their imaginary adventures comes to an end when dusk falls over the meadow and they ride home.
Curriculum Notes: ecosystems, sequence the story

Title: Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
Author: Meena Harris
Illustrator: Ana RamÍrez Gonzalez (Outside Culture)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: This book was written by the Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris. It follows an idea that Kamala and her sister Maya had to make the courtyard of their apartment building into a playground. They knocked on doors, received donations, and had a pot luck to bring the community together. They organized a bake sale to raise more money and make their big idea a reality.
Curriculum Notes: starting a club or fundraiser, to introduce students to Kamala Harris
Author: Meena Harris
Illustrator: Ana RamÍrez Gonzalez (Outside Culture)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: This book was written by the Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris. It follows an idea that Kamala and her sister Maya had to make the courtyard of their apartment building into a playground. They knocked on doors, received donations, and had a pot luck to bring the community together. They organized a bake sale to raise more money and make their big idea a reality.
Curriculum Notes: starting a club or fundraiser, to introduce students to Kamala Harris

Title: Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Author: Joanna Ho
Illustrator: Dung Ho
Publisher: Harper
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: A young Chinese American girl shows pride in the shape of her eyes. She describes her eyes “that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea.” She describes three generations of women in her family this way. The eyes of her mother, her grandmother, and her baby sister each tell her something incredibly special about them and her. Most of all they tell her she is loved.
Curriculum Notes: school library, SEL: You are loved, be proud of who you are
Author: Joanna Ho
Illustrator: Dung Ho
Publisher: Harper
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: A young Chinese American girl shows pride in the shape of her eyes. She describes her eyes “that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea.” She describes three generations of women in her family this way. The eyes of her mother, her grandmother, and her baby sister each tell her something incredibly special about them and her. Most of all they tell her she is loved.
Curriculum Notes: school library, SEL: You are loved, be proud of who you are

Title: Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Author: Joanna Ho
Illustrator: Dung Ho
Publisher: Harper
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Joanna Ho
Illustrator: Dung Ho
Publisher: Harper
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Little Kunoichi, The Ninja Girl
Author: Sanae Ishida
Illustrator: Sanae Ishida
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Publication Year: 2015
Summary: Little Kunoichi lives on a super-secret island in the Treehouse Village. She attends the Super-Secret Ninja Girl’s School. After sneaking out of school, she meets Chibi Samurai from the Samurai Dojo Institute. Together they practice and practice for the Island Festival when they will showcase their skills together.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, working together, school library
Author: Sanae Ishida
Illustrator: Sanae Ishida
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Publication Year: 2015
Summary: Little Kunoichi lives on a super-secret island in the Treehouse Village. She attends the Super-Secret Ninja Girl’s School. After sneaking out of school, she meets Chibi Samurai from the Samurai Dojo Institute. Together they practice and practice for the Island Festival when they will showcase their skills together.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, working together, school library

Title: Like the Moon Loves the Sky
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Saffa Khan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: A book about parents' unconditional love for their children with prose inspired by the Quran. (Jacket description)
Curriculum Notes: school library, religious holiday
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Saffa Khan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: A book about parents' unconditional love for their children with prose inspired by the Quran. (Jacket description)
Curriculum Notes: school library, religious holiday

Title: Night of the Moon
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Julie Paschkis (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: Yasmeen watches the moon as the weeks pass during her family’s nightly celebrations and daily fasting of Ramadan. This book illustrates and tells about the weekly events of a family during Ramadan. This book is a great conversation starter about religious holidays of the Islamic faith.
Curriculum Notes: Religious holidays
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Julie Paschkis (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: Yasmeen watches the moon as the weeks pass during her family’s nightly celebrations and daily fasting of Ramadan. This book illustrates and tells about the weekly events of a family during Ramadan. This book is a great conversation starter about religious holidays of the Islamic faith.
Curriculum Notes: Religious holidays

Title: Tsunami!
Author: Kimiko Kajikawa
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Philomel Books
Publication Year: 2009
Summary: A tale of a wise old farmer in Japan called Ojiisan whose saves his village from a tsunami wave. Ojiisan burns his rice fields in a successful attempt to lure all the people of the village up the mountain to safety before they realize the large wave sweeps their entire village out to sea leaving them on the mountain.
Curriculum Notes: Tsunami, Folktale
Author: Kimiko Kajikawa
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Philomel Books
Publication Year: 2009
Summary: A tale of a wise old farmer in Japan called Ojiisan whose saves his village from a tsunami wave. Ojiisan burns his rice fields in a successful attempt to lure all the people of the village up the mountain to safety before they realize the large wave sweeps their entire village out to sea leaving them on the mountain.
Curriculum Notes: Tsunami, Folktale

Title: Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Mehrdokht Amini
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: This book has informative text and colorful illustrations that highlight the shapes of the world of Islam. This is another book to introduce children to religions with the positive use of shapes to highlight important symbols, events, and the actions of the religion of Islam.
Curriculum Notes: religion, shapes in math
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Mehrdokht Amini
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: This book has informative text and colorful illustrations that highlight the shapes of the world of Islam. This is another book to introduce children to religions with the positive use of shapes to highlight important symbols, events, and the actions of the religion of Islam.
Curriculum Notes: religion, shapes in math

Title: Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Mehrdokht Amini
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2012
Summary: This book has informative text and colorful illustrations that highlight the colors of the world of Islam. This is another book to introduce children to religions with the positive use of color to highlight important symbols, events, and the actions of the people.
Curriculum Notes: Colors, religions of the world for younger grade levels.
Author: Hena Khan
Illustrator: Mehrdokht Amini
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Year: 2012
Summary: This book has informative text and colorful illustrations that highlight the colors of the world of Islam. This is another book to introduce children to religions with the positive use of color to highlight important symbols, events, and the actions of the people.
Curriculum Notes: Colors, religions of the world for younger grade levels.

Title: Big Red Lollipop
Author: Rukhsana Khan
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication Year: 2010
Summary: Rubina is invited to her very first birthday party and her mother insists she take her little sister along.
Curriculum Notes: SEL and sibling rivalry
Author: Rukhsana Khan
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication Year: 2010
Summary: Rubina is invited to her very first birthday party and her mother insists she take her little sister along.
Curriculum Notes: SEL and sibling rivalry

Title: Dear Yeti
Author: James Kwan
Illustrator: James Kwan
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Publishing
Publication Year: 2015
Summary: Two young hikers are in search of Yeti and write letters to it along their travels.
Curriculum Notes: introduction to basic letter writing for younger grade levels
Author: James Kwan
Illustrator: James Kwan
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Publishing
Publication Year: 2015
Summary: Two young hikers are in search of Yeti and write letters to it along their travels.
Curriculum Notes: introduction to basic letter writing for younger grade levels

Title: No Kimchi For Me
Author: Aram Kim
Illustrator: Aram Kim
Publisher: Holiday House
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: Yoomi does not like kimchi. She tries it many ways, but she still does not like it. Then, one day her grandmother helps her make a kimchi pancake to share with their family. Yoomi takes a bite. Will she like it? This book is written with limited narration for the illustrations show this entertaining and educational story.
Curriculum Notes: Foods from other country, country study, author study https://www.aramkim.com/
Author: Aram Kim
Illustrator: Aram Kim
Publisher: Holiday House
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: Yoomi does not like kimchi. She tries it many ways, but she still does not like it. Then, one day her grandmother helps her make a kimchi pancake to share with their family. Yoomi takes a bite. Will she like it? This book is written with limited narration for the illustrations show this entertaining and educational story.
Curriculum Notes: Foods from other country, country study, author study https://www.aramkim.com/

Title: Thao
Author: Thao Lam
Illustrator: Thao Lam
Publisher: Owlkids Books
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: Thao’s name has been misspelled, mispronounced, and misunderstood her entire life. She now wants to be called Jennifer, however, Goi cuon is Thao’s favorite lunch. She is Thao Hong Lam. Lam, not lamb.
Curriculum Notes: illustrator study https://thaolam.com/
Author: Thao Lam
Illustrator: Thao Lam
Publisher: Owlkids Books
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: Thao’s name has been misspelled, mispronounced, and misunderstood her entire life. She now wants to be called Jennifer, however, Goi cuon is Thao’s favorite lunch. She is Thao Hong Lam. Lam, not lamb.
Curriculum Notes: illustrator study https://thaolam.com/

Title: Seven Golden Rings, A Tale of Music Math
Author: Rajami LaRocca
Illustrator: Archana Sreenivasan
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Bhagat travels to the city to become a singer in the rajah’s court. He must figure out a way to pay the innkeeper with his mother gold chain of seven rings without misspending a ring.
Curriculum Notes: math: adding, dividing, decomposing numbers, author study https://www.rajanilarocca.com/
Author: Rajami LaRocca
Illustrator: Archana Sreenivasan
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Bhagat travels to the city to become a singer in the rajah’s court. He must figure out a way to pay the innkeeper with his mother gold chain of seven rings without misspending a ring.
Curriculum Notes: math: adding, dividing, decomposing numbers, author study https://www.rajanilarocca.com/

Title: The Cat Man of Aleppo
Author: Irene Latham (Outside Culture) and Karim Shamsi-Basha
Illustrator: Yuko Shimizu
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: This book highlights the war efforts of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, an ambulance driver in Syria. Alaa loves his city of Aleppo and tried to help wherever he could while the city was destroyed in the seven-year war. He found a need to open an animal sanctuary and later an orphanage for children who had lost their parents in the war.
Curriculum Notes: Refugees, SEL, school library
Author: Irene Latham (Outside Culture) and Karim Shamsi-Basha
Illustrator: Yuko Shimizu
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: This book highlights the war efforts of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, an ambulance driver in Syria. Alaa loves his city of Aleppo and tried to help wherever he could while the city was destroyed in the seven-year war. He found a need to open an animal sanctuary and later an orphanage for children who had lost their parents in the war.
Curriculum Notes: Refugees, SEL, school library

Title: Lift
Author: Minh Lê
Illustrator: Dan Santat
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Iris loves to push the button on the elevator lift in her building until one day she finds a magic doorbell button in the trash can outside the lift. Every time she pushes this button she is transported to places she only learns about and reads about in books.
Curriculum Notes: SEL: sibling rivalry, helping others, illustrator study.
Author: Minh Lê
Illustrator: Dan Santat
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Iris loves to push the button on the elevator lift in her building until one day she finds a magic doorbell button in the trash can outside the lift. Every time she pushes this button she is transported to places she only learns about and reads about in books.
Curriculum Notes: SEL: sibling rivalry, helping others, illustrator study.

Title: Drawn Together
Author: Minh Lê
Illustrator: Dan Santat
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: A boy visits his grandfather, but they do not speak the same language until the boy pulls out his drawing notebook. His grandfather shows him his sketch book and together becomes their common language.
Curriculum Notes: illustrator study https://www.childrensbookworld.com/dan-santat
Author: Minh Lê
Illustrator: Dan Santat
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: A boy visits his grandfather, but they do not speak the same language until the boy pulls out his drawing notebook. His grandfather shows him his sketch book and together becomes their common language.
Curriculum Notes: illustrator study https://www.childrensbookworld.com/dan-santat

Title: A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
Author: Amy Lee-Tai
Illustrator: Felicia Hoshino
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
Publication Year: 2006
Summary: Mari and her family have been in a Japanese internment camp for 13 months. She and her mother planted sunflower seeds. Mari decided to take a drawing class, but she couldn’t decide what to draw until her life before the internment camp became the focus of her drawings.
Curriculum Notes: drawing, Japanese, internment camps during WWll
Author: Amy Lee-Tai
Illustrator: Felicia Hoshino
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
Publication Year: 2006
Summary: Mari and her family have been in a Japanese internment camp for 13 months. She and her mother planted sunflower seeds. Mari decided to take a drawing class, but she couldn’t decide what to draw until her life before the internment camp became the focus of her drawings.
Curriculum Notes: drawing, Japanese, internment camps during WWll

Title: Paper Son, The Inspiring True Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist
Author: Julie Leung
Illustrator: Chris Sasaki
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: This book is a biography about Tyrus Wong. Tyrus loved to draw and paint. He studied Western style art and Chinese art. He worked with charcoal, watercolors, and simple lines. He worked on the backgrounds for Walt Disney’s Bambi. Tyrus continued to paint on various materials. He made colorful and intricate kites in his later years.
Curriculum Notes: art class, watercolors, immigration from China in the 1920’s
Author: Julie Leung
Illustrator: Chris Sasaki
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: This book is a biography about Tyrus Wong. Tyrus loved to draw and paint. He studied Western style art and Chinese art. He worked with charcoal, watercolors, and simple lines. He worked on the backgrounds for Walt Disney’s Bambi. Tyrus continued to paint on various materials. He made colorful and intricate kites in his later years.
Curriculum Notes: art class, watercolors, immigration from China in the 1920’s

Title: Mommy's Hometown
Author: Hope Lim
Illustrator: Jaime Kim
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Hope Lim
Illustrator: Jaime Kim
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: A Big Bed for Little Snow
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Little Snow loves his new bed, however, his mom doesn’t want him jumping on it. Little Snow listens for his mom and then he jumps on his bed allowing for the feathers to fall all winter long until his bed is no longer soft.
Curriculum Notes: weather, snow, author study https://gracelin.com/
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Little Snow loves his new bed, however, his mom doesn’t want him jumping on it. Little Snow listens for his mom and then he jumps on his bed allowing for the feathers to fall all winter long until his bed is no longer soft.
Curriculum Notes: weather, snow, author study https://gracelin.com/

Title: Bringing in the New Year
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: A family welcomes in the Chinese New Year by cleaning, decorating, cooking, and new clothes. As more family joins them for the celebration, they eat, watch firecrackers, lions to scare away last year’s bad luck, and the children carry lanterns. This book is a great introduction to the holiday that is also known as the Lunar New Year (Author’s Note).
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, holidays, Lunar New Year, words matter
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: A family welcomes in the Chinese New Year by cleaning, decorating, cooking, and new clothes. As more family joins them for the celebration, they eat, watch firecrackers, lions to scare away last year’s bad luck, and the children carry lanterns. This book is a great introduction to the holiday that is also known as the Lunar New Year (Author’s Note).
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, holidays, Lunar New Year, words matter

Title: Ling & Ting Twice as Silly
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: This book has 6 short stories starring Ling and Ting. They plant a garden, paint, swing, pick apples, read minds, and write a story of their own.
Curriculum Notes: Writing, silly stories, school library
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: This book has 6 short stories starring Ling and Ting. They plant a garden, paint, swing, pick apples, read minds, and write a story of their own.
Curriculum Notes: Writing, silly stories, school library

Title: A Big Mooncake for Little Star
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: This book is set to a black backdrop that is as dark as the night sky. Set against the black backdrop is Little Star and her mama as they make a Big Mooncake in their brightly colored yellow-star pajamas. Each night, Little Star sneaks out of bed and eats more and more of the Big Mooncake in several phases until is gone. Then, it is time for mama and Little Star to make another Big Mooncake.
Curriculum Notes: phases of the moon, author study https://gracelin.com/
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: This book is set to a black backdrop that is as dark as the night sky. Set against the black backdrop is Little Star and her mama as they make a Big Mooncake in their brightly colored yellow-star pajamas. Each night, Little Star sneaks out of bed and eats more and more of the Big Mooncake in several phases until is gone. Then, it is time for mama and Little Star to make another Big Mooncake.
Curriculum Notes: phases of the moon, author study https://gracelin.com/

Title: Dim Sum for Everyone
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2001
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2001
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Fortune Cookie Fortunes
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Year: 2004
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Year: 2004
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Kite Flying
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2004
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2004
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Baseball Saved Us
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Illustrator: Dom Lee
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Publication Year: 1993
Summary: This book is inspired by actual events (Jacket Cover). A boy and his family are in a Japanese Internment camp during World War II. His father decides they need a baseball field. The entire camp comes together to make his idea a reality and they enjoy many baseball games amongst various teams within the camp. The war ends and the family returns home to a different world.
Curriculum Notes: Japanese Internment Camps, baseball, overcoming adversity, community
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Illustrator: Dom Lee
Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.
Publication Year: 1993
Summary: This book is inspired by actual events (Jacket Cover). A boy and his family are in a Japanese Internment camp during World War II. His father decides they need a baseball field. The entire camp comes together to make his idea a reality and they enjoy many baseball games amongst various teams within the camp. The war ends and the family returns home to a different world.
Curriculum Notes: Japanese Internment Camps, baseball, overcoming adversity, community

Title: The Proudest Blue, A Story of Hijab and Family
Author: Ibtihaj Muhammad with S.K All
Illustrator: Hatem Aly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Today is the first day of wearing a hijab for Faizah’s older sister, Asiya. Though it is an important day for Asiya, she takes the adversity of laughter and insults with grace. An education for the reader of what her sister's hijab means to her as narrated by Faizah.
Curriculum Notes: Ibtihaj Muhammad, SEL: new experiences, illustrator study https://www.metahatem.com/
Author: Ibtihaj Muhammad with S.K All
Illustrator: Hatem Aly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Today is the first day of wearing a hijab for Faizah’s older sister, Asiya. Though it is an important day for Asiya, she takes the adversity of laughter and insults with grace. An education for the reader of what her sister's hijab means to her as narrated by Faizah.
Curriculum Notes: Ibtihaj Muhammad, SEL: new experiences, illustrator study https://www.metahatem.com/

Title: Dear Juno
Author: Soyung Pak
Illustrator: Susan Kathleen Hartung (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Year: 1999
Summary: Juno excitedly waits for his parents to read him his letter from his grandmother in Korea, who writes only in Korean. Juno brings his letter to school to show his teacher. Then, he draws his grandmother a series of pictures to communicate to her what his life is like in America. She responds to his letter with a picture and a special gift.
Author: Soyung Pak
Illustrator: Susan Kathleen Hartung (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Year: 1999
Summary: Juno excitedly waits for his parents to read him his letter from his grandmother in Korea, who writes only in Korean. Juno brings his letter to school to show his teacher. Then, he draws his grandmother a series of pictures to communicate to her what his life is like in America. She responds to his letter with a picture and a special gift.

Title: Bee-bim Bop
Author: Linda Sue Park
Illustrator: Ho Baek Lee
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publication Year: 2005
Summary: A little girl and her mother go to the store to buy the ingredients to make some Bee-bim Bop. Then, they prepare and cook the ingredients for dinner. The family sits down for dinner to eat the Bee-bim bop
Curriculum Notes: South Korea, Korean Food, “how to” writing
Author: Linda Sue Park
Illustrator: Ho Baek Lee
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publication Year: 2005
Summary: A little girl and her mother go to the store to buy the ingredients to make some Bee-bim Bop. Then, they prepare and cook the ingredients for dinner. The family sits down for dinner to eat the Bee-bim bop
Curriculum Notes: South Korea, Korean Food, “how to” writing

Title: A Different Pond
Author: Bao Phi
Illustrator: Thi Bui
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: A boy goes fishing with his father every morning before they go to work and school so the family will have food to eat for dinner. His father tells him about the pond in Vietnam he would fish at to provide food for his family and other stories of the boy’s life before living in America.
Curriculum Notes: school library
Author: Bao Phi
Illustrator: Thi Bui
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: A boy goes fishing with his father every morning before they go to work and school so the family will have food to eat for dinner. His father tells him about the pond in Vietnam he would fish at to provide food for his family and other stories of the boy’s life before living in America.
Curriculum Notes: school library

Title: The Paper Kingdom
Author: Helena Ku Rhee
Illustrator: Pascal Campion (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Daniel reluctantly goes to work with his parents to clean a corporate office on the night shift. His parents have named this office the Paper Kingdom to entertain him as they work. It is complete with messy dragons, queens, and kings.
Curriculum Notes: school library, imagination
Author: Helena Ku Rhee
Illustrator: Pascal Campion (Outside Culture)
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Daniel reluctantly goes to work with his parents to clean a corporate office on the night shift. His parents have named this office the Paper Kingdom to entertain him as they work. It is complete with messy dragons, queens, and kings.
Curriculum Notes: school library, imagination

Title: My First Day
Author: Phùng Nguyên Quang & Huŷuh Kim Liê
Illustrator: Phùng Nguyên Quang & Huŷuh Kim Liê
Publisher: Make Me a World
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: A boy in Vietnam takes his first boat ride by himself on the river, over the ocean, through the mangroves to a destination that can be very scary for a first day.
Curriculum Notes: Vietnam, first day of school, last day of school, SEL: Courage
Author: Phùng Nguyên Quang & Huŷuh Kim Liê
Illustrator: Phùng Nguyên Quang & Huŷuh Kim Liê
Publisher: Make Me a World
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: A boy in Vietnam takes his first boat ride by himself on the river, over the ocean, through the mangroves to a destination that can be very scary for a first day.
Curriculum Notes: Vietnam, first day of school, last day of school, SEL: Courage

Title: Hannah and the Ramadan Gift
Author: Qasim Rashid
Illustrator: Aaliya Jaleel
Publisher: Viking
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: Hannah is too young to fast for Ramadan, but she is not too young to learn about helping others simply out of love. Hannah’s grandfather, Dada Jaan, shows her how to help her friends, others, and those who have no one else as the days of Ramadan pass.
Curriculum Notes: Ramadan, Muslim culture, helping others
Author: Qasim Rashid
Illustrator: Aaliya Jaleel
Publisher: Viking
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: Hannah is too young to fast for Ramadan, but she is not too young to learn about helping others simply out of love. Hannah’s grandfather, Dada Jaan, shows her how to help her friends, others, and those who have no one else as the days of Ramadan pass.
Curriculum Notes: Ramadan, Muslim culture, helping others

Title: Dumpling Soup
Author: Jama Kim Rattigan
Illustrator: Lillian Hsu-Flanders
Publisher: Joy Street Books
Publication Year: 1993
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, Hawaii
Author: Jama Kim Rattigan
Illustrator: Lillian Hsu-Flanders
Publisher: Joy Street Books
Publication Year: 1993
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes: Chinese New Year, Hawaii

Title: Wabi Sabi
Author: Mark Reibstein
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: Wabi Sabi is a cat who lives in Japan. She wonders what her name means so she asks another cat, a dog, a bird, and then travels to meet a monkey who gives her the answer. This book is read vertically for the illustrations are full page and created as individual wall hangings each scripted with a message written in Japanese. After reading the information at the back of the book, these scriptures are Japanese Haiku and translations are provided.
Curriculum Notes: Japan, Haiku, Poetry, art, SEL: love your name and accept yourself for who you are
Author: Mark Reibstein
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2008
Summary: Wabi Sabi is a cat who lives in Japan. She wonders what her name means so she asks another cat, a dog, a bird, and then travels to meet a monkey who gives her the answer. This book is read vertically for the illustrations are full page and created as individual wall hangings each scripted with a message written in Japanese. After reading the information at the back of the book, these scriptures are Japanese Haiku and translations are provided.
Curriculum Notes: Japan, Haiku, Poetry, art, SEL: love your name and accept yourself for who you are

Title: Ramadan Moon
Author: Na’ima B. Robert
Illustrator: Shirin Adl
Publisher: Francis Lincoln Children’s Books
Publication Year: 2009
Summary: The shining white crescent moon has appeared and now Ramadan begins for Muslims all over the world. As the moon changes over the month, Muslims pray, give, and fast until the New Moon with the celebration of Eid.
Curriculum Notes: Ramadan, religious holidays, school library
Author: Na’ima B. Robert
Illustrator: Shirin Adl
Publisher: Francis Lincoln Children’s Books
Publication Year: 2009
Summary: The shining white crescent moon has appeared and now Ramadan begins for Muslims all over the world. As the moon changes over the month, Muslims pray, give, and fast until the New Moon with the celebration of Eid.
Curriculum Notes: Ramadan, religious holidays, school library

Title: Bilal Cooks Daal
Author: Aisha Saeed
Illustrator: Anoosha Syed
Publisher: Salaam Reads
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Bilal shows his friends how to cook daal. They play outside for a while as they wait for it to cook.
Curriculum Notes: How-to writing, school library
Author: Aisha Saeed
Illustrator: Anoosha Syed
Publisher: Salaam Reads
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Bilal shows his friends how to cook daal. They play outside for a while as they wait for it to cook.
Curriculum Notes: How-to writing, school library

Title: Yuko-Chan and the Daruma Doll, The Adventures of a Blind Japanese Girl Who Saves Her Village
Author: Sunny Seki
Illustrator: Sunny Seki
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Summary: Yuko-Chan is blind and lives at the Daruma Temple. After a volcano erupts and covers the village in ashes damaging all the crops, Yuko-Chan thinks of an idea to save her village by creating the Daruma Doll to sell at a festival every year.
Curriculum Notes: Japan, folktale, Daruma Doll, SEL: never give up
Author: Sunny Seki
Illustrator: Sunny Seki
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Summary: Yuko-Chan is blind and lives at the Daruma Temple. After a volcano erupts and covers the village in ashes damaging all the crops, Yuko-Chan thinks of an idea to save her village by creating the Daruma Doll to sell at a festival every year.
Curriculum Notes: Japan, folktale, Daruma Doll, SEL: never give up

Title: Nimesh the Adventurer
Author: Ranjit Singh
Illustrator: Mehrdokht Amini
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: Nimesh is walking home and every turn he makes is not just a school or a street or a person. There are dragons and sharks and pirates.
Curriculum Notes: visualization, Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, school library
Author: Ranjit Singh
Illustrator: Mehrdokht Amini
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2018
Summary: Nimesh is walking home and every turn he makes is not just a school or a street or a person. There are dragons and sharks and pirates.
Curriculum Notes: visualization, Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, school library

Title: Shubh Diwali
Author: Chitra Soundar
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: This book, written in rhyme, simply states the events and traditions of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights. The illustration vividly brings the text to life with bright festive colors on every page of the book from the mango leaves to the Rangoon art to the new clothes and stories about gods.
Curriculum Notes: Diwali, religious holidays, Illustrator study https://charlenechua.com/picture-books
Author: Chitra Soundar
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: This book, written in rhyme, simply states the events and traditions of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights. The illustration vividly brings the text to life with bright festive colors on every page of the book from the mango leaves to the Rangoon art to the new clothes and stories about gods.
Curriculum Notes: Diwali, religious holidays, Illustrator study https://charlenechua.com/picture-books

Title: Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
Author: Chieri Uegaki
Illustrator: Qin Leng
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: Hana wants to play her violin in the school talent show and her brothers make fun of her. She thinks back to her visits to her grandfather in Japan and the memories she has of him practicing his violin around the house. Hana practices and practices for the talent show. Then, the night of the talent show arrives. Does all her practicing pay off?
Curriculum Notes: Music, SEL, Courage, perseverance, practicing
Author: Chieri Uegaki
Illustrator: Qin Leng
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: Hana wants to play her violin in the school talent show and her brothers make fun of her. She thinks back to her visits to her grandfather in Japan and the memories she has of him practicing his violin around the house. Hana practices and practices for the talent show. Then, the night of the talent show arrives. Does all her practicing pay off?
Curriculum Notes: Music, SEL, Courage, perseverance, practicing

Title: Ojiichan’s Gift
Author: Chieri Uegaki
Illustrator: Genevieve Simms
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Mayumi visits her grandfather every summer and tends to his garden made of stones. However, everything changes when her grandfather can no longer take care of his big, stone garden.
Curriculum Notes: Japanese gardens, Japanese culture
Author: Chieri Uegaki
Illustrator: Genevieve Simms
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Mayumi visits her grandfather every summer and tends to his garden made of stones. However, everything changes when her grandfather can no longer take care of his big, stone garden.
Curriculum Notes: Japanese gardens, Japanese culture

Title: Watercress
Author: Andrea Wang
Illustrator: Jason Chin
Publisher: Neal Porter Books
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: A family stops by the side of the road to pick watercress for dinner. When the girl won’t eat the watercress at dinner, it prompts her mother to speak of her family and life in China during a famine.
Curriculum Notes: Poetry (written in verse)
Author: Andrea Wang
Illustrator: Jason Chin
Publisher: Neal Porter Books
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: A family stops by the side of the road to pick watercress for dinner. When the girl won’t eat the watercress at dinner, it prompts her mother to speak of her family and life in China during a famine.
Curriculum Notes: Poetry (written in verse)

Title: The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty & The Beast Tale
Author: Laurence Yep
Illustrator: Kam Mak
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Year: 1999
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:
Author: Laurence Yep
Illustrator: Kam Mak
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Year: 1999
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes:

Title: Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas
Author: Natasha Yim
Illustrator: Grace Zong
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: A version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears set-in present-day China. Goldy Luck brings over turnip cakes to the Chans. When she sees that they are not home, her curiosity and clumsiness gets the best of her.
Curriculum Notes: compare to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, fairy tales, school library
Author: Natasha Yim
Illustrator: Grace Zong
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Publication Year: 2014
Summary: A version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears set-in present-day China. Goldy Luck brings over turnip cakes to the Chans. When she sees that they are not home, her curiosity and clumsiness gets the best of her.
Curriculum Notes: compare to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, fairy tales, school library

Title: Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
Author: Paula Yoo
Illustrator: Lin Wang
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Publication Year: 2009
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes: https://paulayoo.com/
Author: Paula Yoo
Illustrator: Lin Wang
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Publication Year: 2009
Summary: In Progress 2023
Curriculum Notes: https://paulayoo.com/

Title: I, Doko. The Tale of the Basket
Author: Ed Young
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Philomen Books
Publication Year: 2004
Summary: This Nepalese tale from oral tradition is told through the viewpoint of the doko or basket. Doko is bought by a family. It spends days in the fields, carries crops and children, and ventures to neighboring villages with changes in the family it serves.
Curriculum Notes: Tales from other countries, example of point-of-view, Illustrator study https://www.edyoungart.com/
Author: Ed Young
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Philomen Books
Publication Year: 2004
Summary: This Nepalese tale from oral tradition is told through the viewpoint of the doko or basket. Doko is bought by a family. It spends days in the fields, carries crops and children, and ventures to neighboring villages with changes in the family it serves.
Curriculum Notes: Tales from other countries, example of point-of-view, Illustrator study https://www.edyoungart.com/

Title: Lon Po-Po
Author: Ed Young
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Philomel Books
Publication Year: 1989
Summary: This story is a Little Red Riding Hood story from China. Three children are left home alone as their mother goes off to visit their grandmother, but then grandmother, or PoPo, suddenly appears at their door. As PoPo visits continues, the children become more and more suspicious of her being the wolf in disguise.
Curriculum Notes: fairy tales, compare to other fairy tales
Author: Ed Young
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Philomel Books
Publication Year: 1989
Summary: This story is a Little Red Riding Hood story from China. Three children are left home alone as their mother goes off to visit their grandmother, but then grandmother, or PoPo, suddenly appears at their door. As PoPo visits continues, the children become more and more suspicious of her being the wolf in disguise.
Curriculum Notes: fairy tales, compare to other fairy tales

Title: Malala’s Magic Pencil
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Illustrator: Kerascoët and Sarah J. Coleman (All Outside Culture)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: Malala wished for a magic pencil so she could change the world. Then one day she saw kids at the dump that she didn’t see in school. This is when she learned that not all kids could afford to go to school. When the government moved into her town and said girls could not attend school, Malala wrote with a real pencil to let people know what was happening in her country and how wrong it was. Now, Malala is known throughout the world as an advocate for education.
Curriculum Notes: writing, school library, advocacy
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Illustrator: Kerascoët and Sarah J. Coleman (All Outside Culture)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year: 2017
Summary: Malala wished for a magic pencil so she could change the world. Then one day she saw kids at the dump that she didn’t see in school. This is when she learned that not all kids could afford to go to school. When the government moved into her town and said girls could not attend school, Malala wrote with a real pencil to let people know what was happening in her country and how wrong it was. Now, Malala is known throughout the world as an advocate for education.
Curriculum Notes: writing, school library, advocacy

Title: In My Mosque
Author: M.O. Yuksel
Illustrator: Hatem Aly
Publisher: Harper
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: This book is simply written to introduce children to the culture of being in a Mosque and the joy, love, and family the narrator experiences during his visit. This tour begins with “Everyone is welcome here!” It comes fun circle with the statement “You are welcome in my mosque.”
Curriculum Notes: school library, Islam, Religious holidays
Author: M.O. Yuksel
Illustrator: Hatem Aly
Publisher: Harper
Publication Year: 2021
Summary: This book is simply written to introduce children to the culture of being in a Mosque and the joy, love, and family the narrator experiences during his visit. This tour begins with “Everyone is welcome here!” It comes fun circle with the statement “You are welcome in my mosque.”
Curriculum Notes: school library, Islam, Religious holidays

Title: Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon
Author: Kat Zhang
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Amy is determined to draw a dragon. Then, her grandmother tells her a story about dragons and Amy find a dragon costume in the attic. She repairs the dragon costume, with the help of her family, and brings it to school.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, never give up, determination
Author: Kat Zhang
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: Amy is determined to draw a dragon. Then, her grandmother tells her a story about dragons and Amy find a dragon costume in the attic. She repairs the dragon costume, with the help of her family, and brings it to school.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, never give up, determination

Title: Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao
Author: Kat Zhang
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Publisher: Aladdin
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Amy tries and tries and tries, but she cannot make the perfect bao. Then she thinks of an idea to solve her problem to make the perfect bao.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, never give up, problem/solution
Author: Kat Zhang
Illustrator: Charlene Chua
Publisher: Aladdin
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: Amy tries and tries and tries, but she cannot make the perfect bao. Then she thinks of an idea to solve her problem to make the perfect bao.
Curriculum Notes: SEL, never give up, problem/solution