The Runaway Rice Cake
10 best books like The Runaway Rice Cake (Ying Chang Compestine): Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey, Duck for Turkey Day, The Library Gingerbread Man, Huff & Puff, Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale, Anansi and the Talking Melon, Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, The Village that Vanished, Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding, Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
| Author | Joy Cowley |
| ISBN | 0590469770 |
Somewhere in the world, at this exact moment, there is a little boy or girl living with his grandparents and aunt, waiting for his or her father or mother to come home from work. In this light- hearted, realistic fiction book, “Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey,” this is part...
Duck for Turkey Day
| Author | Jacqueline Jules |
| ISBN | 0807517348 |
The Library Gingerbread Man
| Author | Dotti Enderle |
| ISBN | 1602130485 |
The Gingerbread Man sped around them. "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the...
Huff & Puff
| Author | Claudia Rueda |
| ISBN | 1419701703 |
Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 1596433787 |
And...
Anansi and the Talking Melon
| Author | Eric A. Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0823411044 |
Now, I have been reading the “Anansi” series ever since I was little and I was always so amazed at the gorgeous artwork and the hilarious writing in each book! So, when I stumbled upon another “Anansi” story that was written by Eric A. Kimmel along with illustrations by Janet Stevens,...
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0375861017 |
Each member of the family lends a hand as they prepare a moonlit picnic with mooncakes, pomelos, cups of tea, and colorful lanterns. And everyone sends thanks and a secret...
| Author | Ann Grifalconi |
| ISBN | 0142401900 |
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0689844581 |
| Author | Ginnie Lo |
| ISBN | 1600604420 |
It’s a great story for readers looking for intergenerational family stories, cross-cultural and immigration stories, stories of family traditions, and also to learn a bit about soybeans.
Though it’s a “based...
| Author | Rukhsana Khan |
| ISBN | 1600606598 |
In two fierce battles,...
A New Year's Reunion
| Author | Yu Li-Qiong |
| ISBN | 0763658812 |
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,...
Little Treasures: Endearments from Around the World
| Author | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
| ISBN | 0547428626 |
All over the world, people express their love for their children through endearments, such as “sweetie pie” or “peanut.” A child might be called little angel, angelito, in Spanish or precious, bao bei, in Chinese or my sweet...
Take Me Out to the Yakyu
| Author | Aaron Meshon |
| ISBN | 1442441771 |
You may know that baseball is the Great American Pastime, but did you know that it is also a beloved sport in Japan? Come along with one little boy and his grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, as he learns...
Soup Day
| Author | Melissa Iwai |
| ISBN | 0805090045 |
Sam and the Lucky Money
| Author | Karen Chinn |
| ISBN | 1880000539 |
The Turkey Girl : a Zuni Cinderella story
| Author | Penny Pollock |
| ISBN | 0316713147 |
As a Native American version, there is this element of quiet, dignified, solemnity inherent in the story. So as I'm reading this to my kids, I sort of blew the mood when the otherwise normal farmyard turkeys unexpectedly started talking:
'Willingly,...
Hibernation Station
| Author | Michelle Meadows |
| ISBN | 1416937889 |
Everybody at the station! It’s time for winter hibernation! The sweet rhyming text of this book will calm even the most rambunctious kids and have them dreaming about what it’s like to hibernate. Young readers will be soothed and delighted as this story introduces them to different types of...
That's What Leprechauns Do
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0618354107 |
But Mrs. Ballybunion’s cow, Miss Maud Murphy’s hen,...
My First Chinese New Year
| Author | Karen Katz |
| ISBN | 0805070761 |
This fictional story is told by a young girl experiencing her first Chinese New Year. She describes the different traditions and celebrations associated with this event. The illustrations are bright and colorful. I think this is a good choice for introducing youngsters to a different...
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
| Author | Sanjay Patel |
| ISBN | 1452103623 |
Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa
| Author | Niki Daly |
| ISBN | 0618723455 |
Mean Soup
| Author | Betsy Everitt |
| ISBN | 0152002278 |