Chu’s Day
This charming board book is about a panda named Chu who learns that even young children are capable of big things. It will join Goodnight Moon as a bedtime favorite.
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Dim Sum for Everyone
A family visits a dim sum restaurant and brings readers along to learn the names of all their favorite dishes.
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Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes
This lovely multicultural book for kids pairs classic English-language nursery rhymes, stories and songs with their counterparts from China, organized into themes like Inside, Outside, Party and Play.
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Summertime Rainbow
In English and Mandarin Chinese, this bilingual book of colors celebrates the natural world with simple concepts and beautiful, bold illustrations.
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D is for Dragon Dance
The best Chinese-themed ABC book I’ve found. Includes the basics (“F is for Firecrackers”), along with great cultural notes (“Dragon dancers and firecrackers scare away evil spirits”). A real winner.
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Chinatown
A young boy and his grandmother walk the streets of Chinatown visiting shops, markets and restaurants as the neighborhood celebrates Chinese New Year. A fun intergenerational story.
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Grandfather Counts
This book is about overcoming family language barriers when grandfather speaks Chinese and his multicultural American grandchildren do not.
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Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic
Taiwanese parents who went to college in the U.S. raise their daughters and create an annual soybean picnic for Chicago’s Chinese American community.
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Apple Pie 4th of July
A young girl works in her family’s Chinese market straddling two worlds on the most American of holidays.