Award-winning AAPI picture books celebrating family, friendship, courage, community, immigration, and imagination with humor and heart.
Award-winning AAPI picture books celebrating family, friendship, courage, community, immigration, and imagination with humor and heart.
Launching March 10, 2026!
★ "Encourage even the quietest kids to be unabashedly bold in their imaginative play and embrace the potential friendships it could help lead to." — The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review
"A shy young girl channels her inner superhero….A heartfelt reminder that courage grows through imagination, persistence, and people who believe in us." — Kirkus Reviews
"A clever way to help children see that bravery often means just beginning. For librarians looking to support early readers or emerging readers with SEL themes, this is a fine choice." — School Library Journal
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard
Featured at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
"Mai Giang’s sensory-filled prose gently and evocatively communicates a personal wartime story. Phumiruk’s clean, soft illustrations, done in Photoshop and pencil, bring to life a gamut of emotions…A moving and illuminating story of family, war, courage, and newfound home.”
— Kirkus
“Giang’s affecting, powerful recounting of her family’s escape from Saigon in 1975 renders a largely unexplored moment in history intimate and urgent.” — BCCB
Junior Library Guild Selection
“…plentiful onomatopoeia and staccato sentences successfully evoke the action in this dynamic profile of a living legend.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“Chan’s action-star trajectory will inspire young readers. A starter biography of a beloved cinematic figure that underscores the value of hard work and embracing one’s individuality.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Jackie stayed behind at the China Drama Academy to train for the opera… This period in his life instilled him with perseverance and dedication to his craft. VERDICT This should find a home in many larger biography collections.”
— School Library Journal
Bank Street Best of 2021
“A sweet story spiced with cultural humor and life lessons.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Incorporating the Chinese belief that foods have warm and cool characteristics, Giang’s story artfully demonstrates how achieving balance results in positive outcomes.”
— Booklist
“Hot-tempered, impulsive Ginger and cool, organized Chrysanthemum have individual yet complementary ideas about how to best dress and decorate for Grandma’s special day...en route to delivering a perennial message.”
— Publisher’s Weekly