Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep, Harper Collins, New York, 1993 A historical adventure novel about a Chinese boy who comes to America and works on the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the Sierras in the 1860's. A Newbery Honor Book.
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep, Harper Collins, New York, 1993
A historical adventure novel about a Chinese boy who comes to America and works on the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the Sierras in the 1860's. A Newbery Honor Book.
Famous Asian Americans by Janet Nomura Morey & Wendy Dunn, Cobblehill Books, New York, 1992
Chronicles of the lives of 14 Asian Americans
Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans by Susan Sinnott, Children's press, Chicago, 1993
Biographical sketches including those of BSO Conductor Seiji Ozawa, computer company founder An Wang,novelist Amy Tan, and architect I.M. Pei.
Kongi and Potgi: A Cinderella Story from Korea adapted by Oki S. Han & Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, 1996
The story of the poor girl and the prince has close parallels in many cultures, including this tale from Korea.
April Showers by George Shannon, pictures by Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey, Greenwillow Books, New York, 1995
What happens, when some frogs dancing in the rain don't notice a snake sneaking up on them, is delightfully illustrated. Aruego is from Manilla in the Phillipine Islands.
Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida illustrated by Charles Robinson, Atheneum, New York 1978
A novel about a Japanese American Family returning to their home in Berkeley California after being held in a US internment camp during World War II
The Seeing Stick by Jane Yolen, pictures by Remy Charlip & Demetra Maraslis, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1977
How an old man teaches the Emperor's blind daughter to see.
Sumi & The Goat & the Tokyo Express by Yoshiko Uchida, pictures by Kazue Mizumura, Charles Scribners Sons, New York 1969
A warm humorous story about a little girl and her goat and a train that wasn't supposed to stop in her village.
Little Plum A classic Chinese Tale retold and illustrated by Ed Young, Philomel Books, New York,1994
A Chinese couple has a very small son who saves his village from a cruel lord.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, paintings by Ronald Himler, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1977
The after effects of the atom bomb on a young girl from Hiroshima.
Emma's Rug by Allen Say, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1996
A story about a girl, her drawings, a rug and her feelings about art.
Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyte-Goldsmith, photographs by Lawrence Migdale, Holiday House, NY 1998
How a San Francisco boy and his Chinese-American family really celebrate the Chinese New Year.
The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep, illustrated by David Wiesner, Harper &
Row, New York, 1989
A collection of Chinese-American folk tales collected from residents of Chinatown in Oakland as a WPA project in the 1930's and retold by Yep
The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep, pictures by Kam Mak, Harper Collins Publishers,New York 1997
A retelling of a traditional Chinese folktale about a farmer, his daughter and a Dragon.
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