Tea with Milk
10 best books like Tea with Milk (Allen Say): Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, The Three Questions, Goin' Someplace Special, The Name Jar, Baseball Saved Us, How My Parents Learned to Eat, Tomás and the Library Lady, The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, One Green Apple, My Name Is Yoon
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0786801786 |
You ever hear of the jazz playin' man, the man with the cats who could swing with his band?
His name was Duke. Duke Ellington. As a child, he said piano made an umpy-dump sound that was headed nowhere worth following. But, years later, he heard the piano played a whole new way. People called the music...
| Author | Jon J. Muth |
| ISBN | 0439199964 |
What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? Nikolai knows that he wants to be the best person he can be, but often he is unsure if he is doing the right thing. So he goes to ask Leo, the wise turtle. When he arrives, the turtle is struggling to dig in his garden,...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0689818858 |
'Tricia Ann is going to her favorite place in the world today. It's the first time she's been allowed to go there all by herself. In a lovely dress that looks like spring, she leaves the house. Her grandmother cautions her to "hold yo' head up and act like you b'long to somebody."
But holding...
| Author | Yangsook Choi |
| ISBN | 0440417996 |
The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?
Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells...
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1880000199 |
Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty...
How My Parents Learned to Eat
| Author | Ina R. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0395442354 |
This is a wonderful story to show that the way people EAT food is so much a part of their culture. The little girl in the story has a Japanese mom and an American dad and she explains that sometimes they eat with chopsticks and sometimes with knives and forks. She goes on to explain about how her parents met...
Tomás and the Library Lady
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 0613283627 |
A young Texan finds refuge in his new Iowa town's library, where the librarian offers him cool comfort from hot summer days and whirlwind adventures through reading. Colon's beautiful scratchboard illustrations, in his textured, glowingly colored, rhythmic style, capture the warmth and the dreams...
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
| Author | Dianne Snyder |
| ISBN | 0395440904 |
I really enjoyed this story. It is an adapted Japanese folktale. A mother is raising a son who loves to sleep. He sleeps all the time. He is a trickster. He comes up with a plan to have a life so that he does not have to work. The whole town knows he is lazy and they call him the boy of the 3 year nap. His mother works...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0449813371 |
An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to...
April and Esme: Tooth Fairies
| Author | Bob Graham |
| ISBN | 0763646830 |
Two young tooth fairies make their first lost-tooth collection in Bob Graham's warm, whimsical tale.
A Junior Library Guild Selection. April Underhill, seven-year-old tooth fairy, gets a call on her cell phone. This is it! Her first tooth collection. April and her little sister, Esme, must...
| Author | Jon J. Muth |
| ISBN | 0439634253 |
Summer fading
new friends' faces
lighten the way home.
Summer has arrived — and so has Koo, Stillwater the Panda's haiku-speaking young nephew. When Stillwater encourages Koo and their friends Addy, Michael, and Karl to help a grouchy neighbor in need, their efforts are rewarded...
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
| Author | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| ISBN | 0439269679 |
Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America. While this momentous event showcased the uniqueness of her voice, the strength of her character, and the struggles of the times in which...
| Author | Shirin Yim Bridges |
| ISBN | 0811834905 |
Ruby is unlike most little girls in old China. Instead of aspiring to get married, Ruby is determined to attend university when she grows up, just like the boys in her family. Based upon the inspirational story of the author's grandmother and accompanied by richly detailed illustrations, Ruby's Wish...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399231161 |
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
With the addition of a brand-new author's...
