Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Picture Books from Asian Creators
Juna's jar
Bahk, Jane.
After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better ...
A friend for Henry
Bailey, Jenn.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy ...
Redwoods
Chin, Jason.
Also available in Hoopla. A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoo...
The ocean calls : a haenyeo mermaid story
Cho, Tina.
Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl duti...
Behind the mask
Choi, Yangsook.
Kimin, a young Korean-American boy, has trouble deciding on a Halloween costume, but as he looks th...
The name jar
Choi, Yangsook.
Also available in Overdrive. After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates ...
Ginger and Chrysanthemum
Giang, Kristen Mai.
Also available in Hoopla. Ginger and Chrysanthemum are opposites, but they are cousins, as close as...
I really want to see you, Grandma
Gomi, Taro.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Yumi and her grandmother really want to see each other, but...
Over the ocean
Gomi, Taro.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A young girl gazes out over the horizon, and wonders what l...
Leila in saffron
Guidroz, Rukhsanna.
Shy and unsure of herself, Leila discovers all the things that make her special with the loving hel...
Eyes that kiss in the corners
Ho, Joanna.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A self-confident and strong young girl recounts how she sha...
Big red lollipop
Khan, Rukhsana.
Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Ru...
Under my hijab
Khan, Hena.
As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different...
Golden domes and silver lanterns : a Muslim book of colors
Khan, Hena.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family gu...
Danbi leads the school parade
Kim, Anna.
"Danbi is thrilled to start her new school in America. But a bit nervous too, for when she wal...
Monsoon
Krishnaswami, Uma.
A child describes waiting for the monsoon rains to arrive and the worry that they will not come. ...
Cora cooks pancit
Lazo Gilmore, Dorina K.
When all her older siblings are away, Cora's mother finally lets her help make pancit, a Filip...
Drawn together
Lê, Minh.
Also available in Overdrive. A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using ...
Lift
Lê, Minh.
Also available in Overdrive. From the award-winning and bestselling creators of Drawn Together come...
A big bed for Little Snow
Lin, Grace.
When winter comes, Mommy makes a soft bed for Little Snow to sleep on, but each night he cannot res...
A big mooncake for Little Star
Lin, Grace.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Reimagines the cycles of the moon as a mother bakes a Big M...
The ugly vegetables
Lin, Grace.
Also available in Hoopla. A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neigh...
A morning with grandpa
Liu, Sylvia.
Curious and energetic Mei Mei attempts some t'ai chi forms as her grandfather demonstrates the...
Auntie Yang's great soybean picnic
Lo, Ginnie.
"A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans-a favorite Chinese food-growing...
Our favorite day
Oh, Joowon.
Follows Papa and his granddaughter as they spend another Thursday together. ...
Bee-bim bop!
Park, Linda Sue.
A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting. I...
There's no such thing as little
Pham, LeUyen.
Reveals how things that seem little are actually very important, such as a little light that is rea...
My footprints
Phi, Bao.
Also available in Hoopla. Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is d...
Bilal cooks daal
Saeed, Aisha.
Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait pa...
Are we there yet?
Santat, Dan.
Also available in Hoopla. "A boy goes on a long car ride to visit his grandmother and discover...
Grandfather's journey
Say, Allen.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's jou...
My dadima wears a sari
Sheth, Kashmira.
Two young sisters raised in America learn about the beauty and art of wearing a sari from their wis...
They say blue
Tamaki, Jillian.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A young girl describes where she finds colors in both the w...
When the cousins came
Yamasaki, Katie.
Also available in Overdrive. Even though Lila's cousins do some things differently, Lila loves...
A map into the world
Yang, Kao Kalia.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. "Paj Ntaub, a young Hmong American girl, spends a busy...
The boring book
Yoshitake, Shinsuke.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A child, bored by his toys, contemplates the emotion and con...
Still stuck
Yoshitake, Shinsuke.
At bath time, a boy who believes he is ready to dress and undress himself gets stuck in his clothes...
There must be more than that!
Yoshitake, Shinsuke.
Also available in Hoopla. Troubled because her brother has told her that the future of Earth is blea...
Amy Wu and the perfect bao
Zhang, Kat.
Also available in Overdrive. Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and gran...
Ling & Ting : not exactly the same!
Lin, Grace.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exa...
Kamishibai man
Say, Allen.
After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells storie...
Where's Halmoni?
Kim, Julie J.
Searching for their missing grandmother, two Korean children follow tracks into a fantastic world f...
Your place in the universe
Chin, Jason.
"A non-fiction introduction to the massive scale of the known universe"-- ...
Grand Canyon
Chin, Jason.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. "An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, ...
Magic ramen : the story of Momofuku Ando
Wang, Andrea.
"Every day, Ando Momofuku would retire to his lab--a little shed in his backyard. For years, h...
Mahjong all day long
Lo, Ginnie.
MaMa and BaBa play mahjong all day long. And all night long. We hear the clicking of mahjong tiles m...