A Bride’s Story (vol. 5) by Kaoru Mori, translated by William Flannagan
Get ready to linger: every panel – and I do mean every! – is a wonder to behold, inducing that slack-jawed ‘gawwww, how does she dooooo that?’-sort of reaction! If you’ve picked up this volume without...
View ArticleHere I Am by Patti Kim, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez
I haven’t seen Patti Kim‘s name on a book cover in quite a while … more than 15 years have passed since her still-resonating debut novel, A Cab Called Reliable, was published in 1997. But who’s...
View ArticleThe Red Thread by Ann Hood
Although I can’t recommend this book, I sure would like to find some readers who might want to discuss it. As it’s apparently a “national bestseller” – so touts the cover of the paperback edition –...
View ArticleSmoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen by Edward Lee
In case you haven’t planned your Turkey Dinner coming up in exactly a week (who, me? menu? what’s that?), here’s a collection filled with irreverently toothsome suggestions. Having grown up eating...
View ArticleMi Familia Calaca | My Skeleton Family by Cynthia Weill, illustrated by Jesús...
Check out this fabulous overview in today’s New York Times highlighting what real American families look like these days: “Families.” Be sure to scroll through all the imbedded slide shows – you know...
View ArticleLooks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis, foreword by...
Deborah Ellis has a doubly powerful schtick: first, her nonfiction titles give underrepresented children a highly visible podium for their very own words (Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children...
View ArticleThe Year of the Horse: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin,...
Get ready to ring in the new year … we might know it as 2014, but by the lunar calendar, January 31, 2014 through February 18, 2015 is also the latest Year of the Horse. Thanks to Oliver Chin, founding...
View ArticleNorman, Speak! by Caroline Adderson, illustrated by Qin Leng
When Norman and his parents go to the animal shelter, they return home with a brown-and-white dog with a stump for a tail because he’s the “saddest.” “‘No one knows his real name,’” the shelter...
View ArticleSocks! by Tania Sohn
Who doesn’t love the unlimited possibility of socks? Polka dotted, striped, green, yellow, even holey socks add just the right flash of whimsy to perfect any outfit. If you’re thinking of changing your...
View ArticleHow Do I Begin? A Hmong American Anthology edited by the Hmong American...
“For any serious artist, it is a terrible feeling of surrender when you realize there is no place in the world for your voice, when all that you express seems marginalized or in vain … But this isn’t a...
View ArticleAbby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj
Okay, so what are the chances?! Varsha Bajaj‘s exuberant debut middle grade novel begins with a food allergy that sends her teen protagonist, the titular Abby Spencer, to the ER with an anaphylactic...
View ArticleThe Year of the Baby and The Year of the Fortune Cookie by Andrea Cheng,...
When I read Andrea Cheng‘s The Year of the Book almost two years ago, I had no clue it would turn out to be a series! Such staying power bodes well that later printings of Book have been fully...
View ArticleI Know Here and From There to Here by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James
Absolutely no doubt that you could read either of these titles separately and find two engaging standalone stories. But read them together and you’re guaranteed a much more satisfying experience that...
View ArticleNot My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated...
Christy Jordan-Fenton and her mother-in-law Margaret Pokiak-Fenton began publishing stories in 2010 about the older Pokiak-Fenton’s difficult childhood as a young Inuit child growing up in Canada’s...
View ArticleCrazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Suspend your disbelief before you open this book (or stick in your ears, so energetically read by actor Lynn Chen). You might also consider duct-taping your jaw shut because Manhattan-based Singaporean...
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