Apple Pie 4th of July

Author	Cathryn Falwell
ISBN	0395620376

One of my favorites to use with younger children for food/Thanksgiving time programs. Very simple counting story about a family going shopping and cooking together and creating a feast. 11/21/12

Used in Lap Time this year. 11/29/13

Used for a PreK class doing grocery shopping.

Used...

Author	Allen Say
ISBN	0395904951

Tea with milk highlights the struggle of a young girl who moves from San Francisco to Japan with her family. Being raised up in a place like San Francisco, it becomes really difficult for her to get accustomed with the norms of traditional Japan and out of frustration she leaves her parents’ home and...

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0590400053

Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson has written a poignant picture book about a little girl who waits hopefully for her father's release from prison.

Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m. And Grandma in her Sunday dress, humming soft and...

Author	Roseanne Thong
ISBN	0811831779

Discover shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and more as a little girl finds color in all sorts of everyday things. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, others universal: red is the dragon in the Chinese New Year parade, green is a bracelet made of jade, and yellow are the taxis she sees...

Author	Grace Lin
ISBN	0440417708

In English, dim sum means “little hearts,” or “touches the heart,” but to this young girl, dim sum means delicious. On a visit to a bustling dim sum restaurant, a family picks their favorite little dishes from the steaming trolleys filled with dumplings, cakes, buns, and tarts. And as is traditional...

Author

Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore

Cora loves being in the kitchen, but she always gets stuck doing the kid jobs like licking the spoon. One day, however, when her older sisters and brother head out, Cora finally gets the chance to be Mama's assistant chef. And of all the delicious Filipino dishes that dance through Cora's head, she and...

Author	Natasha Wing
ISBN	0689805306

The weakest of the picture books I read during the October 2016 Dewey's 24-hour Readathon was Jalapeño Bagels.

International day is coming. Pablo can't decide what to bring from his parent's bakery to represent his heritage. The question is made more complicated because Mom is Mexican and...

Author	Linda Sue Park
ISBN	0618265112

Bee-bim bop (the name translates as “mix-mix rice”) is a traditional Korean dish of rice topped, and then mixed, with meat and vegetables. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and finally sitting...

Author	Jama Kim Rattigan
ISBN	0316730475

This story was about a seven year old Asian-American girl whose name is Marisa and she is from Hawaii and all her New Year family traditions. Every year on New Year, Marisa’s family comes together from all over Hawaii to eat dumpling soup and on New Year’s Eve, all the women in the family get together...

Author	Mary Chamberlin
ISBN	1905236646

As she and her son Adika make their way to market to buy the flour and chili pepper she needs to make pancakes, Mama Panya is dismayed at the number of people Adika invites to join them at their meal. With only two coins in her pocket, how will she feed so many people...?

A lovely picture-book, with...

Author	Yuyi Morales
ISBN	0811837580

In this original trickster tale, Senor Calavera arrives unexpectedly at Grandma Beetle's door. He requests that she leave with him right away. "Just a minute," Grandma Beetle tells him. She still has one house to sweep, two pots of tea to boil, three pounds of corn to make into tortillas -- and that's...

Author	Tony Johnston
ISBN	0152163301

Winner of a 2010 Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor!

Abuelita’s hair is the color of salt. Her face is as crinkled as a dried chile. She booms out words as wild as blossoms blooming. She stuffs her carcacha—her jalopy—with all the things she needs: a plumed snake, a castle, a skeleton, and more....

Author	Carmen Tafolla
ISBN	1582462208

What can you use
to dress up,
play hide-and-seek,
carry baby brother,
and DANCE with?

A rebozo!

In a playful celebration of a vibrant culture, a young girl and her family show all the things they do in their daily lives with a rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl....

Author	Lenore Look
ISBN	0689844581

Jenny's favorite uncle, Peter, is getting married, and everyone is happy happy -- everyone, that is, except Jenny. While her family runs about getting ready for the traditional Chinese wedding -- preparing for the tea ceremony, exchanging good-luck money called hungbau, helping the bride with her...

Author	Pat Mora
ISBN	0061288772

Take a ride in a long submarine or fly away in a hot air balloon. Whatever you do, just be sure to bring your favorite book! Rafael López's colorful illustrations perfectly complement Pat Mora's lilting text in this delightful celebration of El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book...

Author	Pam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN	0439701368

Category: Family

Recipe for a Festive Story Time: Mix 1 birthday party, 1 delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests into a fun romp. Add comic illustrations, jaunty rhythms, and playful refrains. Spice with mystery, and stir...

Author	Yin
ISBN	0142500550

Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...

Author	Soyung Pak
ISBN	0142300179

Juno's grandmother writes in Korean and Juno writes in drawings, but that doesn't mean they can't exchange letters. From the photo his grandmother sends him, Juno can tell that she has a new cat. From the picture he makes for her, Juno's grandmother can tell that he wants her to come for a visit. So she sends...

Author	Eve Bunting
ISBN	0618434771

Farah feels alone, even when surrounded by her classmates. She listens and nods but doesn’t speak. It’s hard being the new kid in school, especially when you’re from another country and don’t know the language. Then, on a field trip to an apple orchard, Farah discovers there are lots of things...

Author	Yu Li-Qiong
ISBN	0763658812

Maomao's dad works many miles away, but he is coming home for New Year!

Little Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family is happily making sticky rice balls, listening to firecrackers,...

Author

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's...

Author	Helen Recorvits
ISBN	0374351147

Getting to feel at home in a new country

Yoon's name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in...