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Children's books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. They cover East, South and Southeast Asian American and Native Hawaiian families, and they work any month of the year.
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Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Joanna Ho
A girl notices her eyes look different from her friends' and sees that they look like her mother's, grandmother's and sister's.
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Bee-bim Bop!
Linda Sue Park
A Korean American girl helps her mother shop and cook bibimbap, and can't wait to eat. In rhyme.
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Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao
Kat Zhang
Amy can do a lot of things, but she can't make a bao that holds together.
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Hot Pot Night!
Vincent Chen
A Taiwanese American boy brings his neighbors together for a shared hot pot dinner. In rhyme.
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Dumpling Soup
Jama Kim Rattigan
Marisa's big mixed family in Hawaii gets together for New Year's, and she makes dumplings for the first time.
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Kapaemahu
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson
A Native Hawaiian legend about four healers of dual male and female spirit who came from Tahiti, and the stones left in their honor on Waikiki.
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Watercress
Andrea Wang
A girl is embarrassed when her Chinese immigrant parents stop to pick watercress by the road in Ohio, until her mother tells her why. Won the Caldecott Medal and a Newbery Honor.
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Red, White, and Whole
Rajani LaRocca
Middle grade novel in verse. In 1983, Reha is the only Indian American kid at her school, and her mother is diagnosed with leukemia. Newbery Honor.