Asian American books for kids including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, South Asian and more.
Asian characters in picture books just going about their everyday lives during modern times written by Asians? Yes! Asian joy! Let’s make a list together! Thank you for your suggestions! 44 Picture Books Celebrating Asian Joy Here’s my contribution: Sumo Joe by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Nat Iwata This is my debut picture book,…
Please welcome my guest today, author Korey Watari, with her debut picture book I Am Able to Shine! She has a list of Japanese American Joy picture books that celebrate joy through creativity! We are giving away 5 copies of I Am Able to Shine! To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom….
@GwenBlumberg on Twitter sent me this photo: And here’s one more! I See You See from Richard Jackson & @patrice_barton. It is in good company on display in our book room right next to a fan favorite @pragmaticmom I was thrilled to see Sumo Joe out in the wild of her library! And that…
Please welcome my guest author today, Hope Lim with her newest picture book, Mommy’s Hometown. Hope has a list that is personal, a group of Korean American picture book creators that have inspired her along her own author journey. We are also giving away a signed copy of Mommy’s Hometown. To enter, please use…
Please join me for our tenth Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. May’s event will be held on May 5th and we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month using I…
It was so wonderful to see Mitali Perkins back at Newtonville Books for her latest book, Bare Tree and Little Wind: A Story for Holy Week. She raised her two boys in Newton but relocated to the Bay Area about five or so years ago. Bare Tree and Little Wind: A Story for Holy Week…
When I submitted my picture book manuscript, Sumo Joe, to Lee and Low’s New Voices competition, I received a response that my picture book had not won, but that I had the opportunity to receive feedback from editors at Lee and Low. My editor, Kandace Costin, found only one sumo picture book at the time…