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All About the Philippines: Stories, Songs, Crafts and Games for Kids

Gidget Roceles Jimenez - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

This family-friendly Phillipines children's book is packed with fun facts about Filipino culture, history, and daily life!All About the Philippines takes you on an incredible journey across the colorful island nation of the Philippines with Mary, Jaime and Ari - three Filipino cousins...
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Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic

Ginnie Lo - Lee & Low Books
Format: Hardcover

A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans—a favorite Chinese food—growing in Illinois, and their family starts a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event.
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Angel in Beijing

BELLE YANG - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a lost-and-found tale that soars far beyond just a happy ending, Taiwanese fine artist Belle Yang pays affectionate homage to the city of Beijing.In busy Beijing, New Year's Eve firecrackers scare a stray white cat into the courtyard of a young girl. The two become fast friends,...
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Bee-bim Bop!

Linda Sue Park
Format: Hardcover

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
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The Bracelet

Yoshiko Uchida - Philomel
Format: Hardcover

In 1942 America, seven-year-old Emi and her Japanese-American family are forced to leave their home, a situation that becomes even more devastating when she loses a precious gold bracelet, a gift from her best friend.
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Brush of the Gods

Lenore Look - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

This gorgeous picture book biography, according to Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, is a cheerful introduction not only to Wu Daozi, but to the power of inspiration. Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more? Wu Daozi 689-758, known as Chinas greatest painter...
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Chirri & Chirra, Underground

Kaya Doi - Enchanted Lion Books
Format: Hardcover

Behind a hole in their basement wall, Chirri and Chirra discover a network of tunnels. Join them as they visit moles, discover caves full of glowing flowers, poke at the roots of growing plants, traverse a subterranean lake, and spend the night with a family of badgers! The fourth book...
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Cora Cooks Pancit

Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore - Shen's Books
Format: Hardcover

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 Mamas assistant chef. And of all the delicious Filipino dishes that dance through Coras...
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Double Happiness

Nancy Tupper Ling - Chronicle Books LLC
Format: Print book

For their move far away, Gracie and Jake are sad to leavethe golden bridge,the trolley tracks,and Nai Nai.But they fill empty boxes with treasures - a marble, a snake,a pair of wings.Tiny reminders of all they love - so happiness stays close,no matter where they go.With grace and warmth,...
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Dumpling Dreams: How Joyce Chen Brought the Dumpling from Beijing to Cambridge

Carrie Clickard - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover

In this inspiring, mouthwatering story, get to know Chef Joyce Chen who is famous for popularizing Chinese food in the northeastern United States.How far can an apron, a bowl, or a book take one small Chinese girl with a passion to cook? From peach blossom Beijing, to crisp Cambridge snow,...
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Filipino Children's Favorite Stories

Liana Romulo - Periplus ; North Clarendon
Format: Print book

This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Philippine fairy tales and other folk stories - providing insight into a rich oral culture.Filipino Children's Favorite Stories presents thirteen well-loved myths and tales from the Philippines. These stories will...
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Fly Free!

Roseanne Thong - Boyds Mills Press
Format: Hardcover

When you do a good deed, it will come back to you. Mai loves feeding the caged birds near the temple but dreams that one day shell see them fly free. Then she meets Thu and shares the joy of feeding the birds with her. This sets a chain of good deeds in motion that radiates throughout her village...
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The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story

Judy Sierra - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In the Spice Islands, where clove and nutmeg trees grow, a girl named Damura lived long ago. Damura is a beautiful girl, as kind and lovely as the little green parrot that perches on the nutmeg tree. But Damuras stepmother and stepsister mistreat her. They force her to rise before dawn,...
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The Girl Who Wore Too Much

Margaret MacDonald - August House
Format: Hardcover

Like most young girls, Aree likes fine clothing and jewelry. But she is just a wee bit spoiled and has more dresses and accessories than she needs. So when word comes of a dance to be held in the next village, Aree can't make up her mind: Now I can show off my fine clothes! But which...
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Good Morning China

Hu Yong Yi - Roaring Brook Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CHINA.  Playing, exercising, resting under a lotus tree: the things happening in an ordinary park on an ordinary morning. Early morning, and a community is coming to life.  Children are playing, an artist is painting, people are exercising...
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Grandfather's Journey

Allen Say - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid - words used to describe Allen Say's Grandfather's Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man's love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers'...
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Grandma Panda's China Storybook: Legends, Traditions, and Fun

Mingmei Yip - Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Hardcover

Grandma Panda is a wonderful teacher, a wonderful storyteller—and a wonderful cook! Her grandchildren Baobao and Lingling love staying with her every summer, because at Grandma Panda's house each day is an adventure. This summer, with the help of celebrated novelist and artist...
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Henry's First-Moon Birthday

Lenore Look - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Jenny's baby brother Henry is having his one-month birthday -- his first-moon, as it's called in Chinese. And even though Jenny's sure he doesn't deserve it -- all Henry does is sleep, eat, and cry -- there's a big celebration planned for him. Together, Jenny and her grandma get everything...
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I Live in Tokyo

Mari Takabayashi - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever been to Tokyo, Japan? Far away, in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo is a busy city of color, activity, celebrations, super gigantic buildings, and much, much more. In this city lives a seven-year-old girl named Mimiko. Here you can follow a year's worth of fun, food, and festivities...
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I See the Sun in China

Dedie King - Satya House Publications; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The first in the I See the Sun Series, readers follow a young girl as she travels from a small town in China to the city of Shanghai to spend time with her aunt. The unspoken message of this book is the movement from the old to the new, while still maintaining some connections with the past....
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Kamishibai Man

Allen Say - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children came running at the sound of his clappers. They were all watching their new televisions instead. Finally, only one boy remained,...
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Kikuchi's Sushi

MYUNG SOOK JEONG - Tantan Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Fox loves looking out over the village from his forest home, but he gets curious when he sees that Kikuchi's sushi restaurant always has a line out the door. Sushi must be delicious. When Fox goes to investigate, Kikuchi teaches him all about sushi - how to prepare rice for it, how to catch...
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Korean Nursery Rhymes: Wild Geese, Land of Goblins and other Favorite Songs and Rhymes

Danielle Wright - Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with jacket and disc edition
Format: Hardcover

A charming collection of fourteen well-loved rhymes, Korean Nursery Rhymes is the perfect introduction to Korean language and culture for young readers. This beautifully illustrated book features songs and rhymes perfect for children who are interested in learning the Korean language or about...
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The Magic Brush: A Story of Love, Family, and Chinese Characters

Kat Yeh - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Combining a heartwarming family story, a magical adventure, and amultilingual primer on Chinese language, The MagicBrush tells the story of Jasmine, a young girl who learnsChinese calligraphy from her Agong, or grandfather. As Jasmine learnshow to paint the characters for dragon, fish,...
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Mei-Mei Loves the Morning

Margaret Tsubakiyama - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Tsubakiyama's simple story, set in a contemporary city in China, depicts a typical morning in the life of young Mei-Mei and her grandfather. The warm and engaging watercolor illustrations bring this intergenerational story to life. Full color.
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My First Book of Chinese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book

Faye-Lynn Wu - Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Hardcover

My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery.It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items...
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My First Book of Japanese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book

Michelle Haney Brown - Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Hardcover

My First Book of Japanese Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Japanese language and culture through everyday words.The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Japanese language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children...
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My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book

Kyubyong Park - Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Print book

My First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words.The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children...
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My First Book of Vietnamese Words

Katy R. Kudela - A+ Books; Lib/Psc Bl edition
Format: Paperback

How do you say hello in Vietnamese? Explore the pages of this Vietnamese/English picture dictionary to learn new words and phrases. Colorful photographs and simple labels make learning Vietnamese easy.
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My Name Is Yoon

Helen Recorvits - Square Fish
Format: Hardcover

Getting to feel at home in a new countryYoons 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...
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The Name Jar

Yangsook Choi - Dragonfly Books
Format: Book

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,...
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Kimchi, Kimchi Every Day

Erica Kim - Soaring Kite Books
Format: Hardcover

Whether round and crunchy like a kimchi pancake or pinched and plump like a kimchi dumpling, there are so many ways to enjoy this Korean traditional dish.Explore the different ways to eat kimchi in this fun, rhyming tale that also teaches the days of the week. Korean-American author-illustrator...
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Natsumi!

Susan Lendroth - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Natsumi is small but full of big exuberance, and puts her girl-power to good use when she discovers a Japanese tradition as energetic as she is. When Natsumi's family practices for their town's Japanese arts festival, Natsumi tries everything. But her stirring is way too vigorous for the tea ceremony,...
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No Kimchi For Me!

Aram Kim - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Yoomi hates stinky, spicy kimchi -- the pickled cabbage condiment served at Korean meals. So her brothers call her a baby and refuse to play with her. Yoomi is determined to eat kimchi. She tries to disguise it by eating it on a cookie, on pizza, and in ice cream. But that doesn't work....
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One Is a Drummer: A Book of Numbers

Roseanne Thong - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

This lively concept book shows that the world around us is filled with things to count. Three are the dim sum carts filled with yummy treats, eight are the candles on a birthday cake, and ten are the bamboo stalks growing in a garden. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, but all are universal...
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Peek!: A Thai Hide-and-Seek

Minfong Ho - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Papa calls on all the creatures of the jungle to help find his baby in this tender, noisy, and gloriously illustrated game of hide-and-seek."Jut-Ay, Baby, peek-a-boo,Want to play? Where are you?"Baby knows that Jut-Ay means morning has come, and it's time to play. But where...
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Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans

Tina M Cho - little bee books
Format: Hardcover

Rice from Heaven is a true story about compassion and bravery as a young girl and her community in South Korea help deliver rice via balloons to the starving and oppressed people in North Korea."We reach a place where mountains become a wall. A wall so high, no one dares to climb....
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Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes

Roseanne Thong - Lakeshore
Format: Book

A little girl's neighborhood becomes a discovery ground for shapes, with many of the objects Asian in origin, and others are universal. Bright art accompanies this ideal introduction to shapes, which includes a short glossary explaining the cultural significance of the featured objects....
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The Sacred Banana Leaf

Nathan Kumar Scott - Tara
Format: Hardcover

Kanchil, the beloved trickster mouse-deer of Indonesian folklore, falls into a pit. With only a banana leaf for company, he invents a prophecy to trick some unlikely animals into helping him out - if the world doesn't end first! And if anyone dares sneeze, the consequences will be dire.This...
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Sumi's First Day of School Ever

Soyung Pak - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The first day of school can be lonely and scary, especially when you don't speak the same language as everyone else. Sumi only knows one phrase in English, "Hello, my name is Sumi." This doesn't seem nearly enough to prepare her for a big school with wide stairs, noisy children,...
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Today And Today

Kobayashi Issa - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

This NYT Best Illustrated artist makes his Scholastic Press debut with a poignant picture book about loss and renewalBrian Karas has always been moved and inspired by the haiku poetry of Issa whose work is taught in schools and loved by children around the world Here Karas has selected...
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The Ugly Vegetables

Grace Lin - Talewinds
Format: Hardcover

It's easy to appreciate a garden exploding with colorful flowers and fragrances, but what do you do with a patch of ugly vegetables? Author/illustrator Grace Lin recalls such a garden in this charming and eloquent story.The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more...
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The Umbrella Queen

Shirin Bridges - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

When Noot is finally allowed to paint umbrellas like the other women and girls in her village, she secretly hopes that she might be chosen as this year's Umbrella Queen. Carefully, she creates serene flowers and butterflies exactly as she has seen her mother and grandmother do for years.But...
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Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding

Lenore Look - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Jennys 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 many...
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The Year of the Dragon: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac (Tales from the Chinese Zodiac, 7)

Oliver Chin - Immedium
Format: Hardcover

The Year of the Dragon is the most lucky and popular... for good reason! Dominic is an adventurous dragon whose journey celebrates the new year. 2012 was the Year of the Dragon! Dominics proud parents rule the sea and sky, advise the Emperor, and have high expectations for their son. Meanwhile...
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1, 2, 3, Go!

Huy Voun Lee - Henry Holt
Format: Print book

A colorful, playful counting book that introduces young children to Chinese characters and action words.One little girl catches a butterfly. Two small swimmers stomp in puddles. Three young musicians bang their drums. The children in this action-packed counting book jump, dance, and run through...
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