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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, "a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States." Here are some articles, interviews, and booklists by and about Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to help acknowledge, celebrate, and amplify the voices of children's book creators of Asian and Pacific...
      

Diverse stories for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, celebrating people in the United States with ancestral ties to the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Here are six works of fiction — featuring realism, folklore, short stories, and historical fiction — for middle-graders and middle-schoolers that...
      

Asian/Pacific American contemporary realism

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, celebrating people in the United States with ancestral ties to the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Here are six works of realistic fiction for middle-graders and middle-schoolers that grapple with identity in engaging, often entertaining, and relatable ways....
      

Boston's New Mayor

...and in local news, Boston voters have elected Michelle Wu to be the first woman, first woman of color, first person of color, first Asian American, and first mother (!) to be elected as mayor. Current acting mayor Kim Janey -- the first woman, first woman of color, first person of color, and first...
      

BGHB 2021: From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

We've reached the culmination of Nonfiction week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, judge Shoshana Flax introduces the 2021 BGHB Nonfiction Winner From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement:   The...
      

BGHB 2021: All Thirteen

Welcome to Nonfiction week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, judge Shoshana Flax introduces the 2021 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Book All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team:   The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Nonfiction is presented...
      

BGHB 2021: Watercress

Picture Book week continues in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration.   Today, chair Luann Toth introduces the 2021 BGHB Picture Book Honor Book Watercress:   The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Picture Book is presented to author Andrea Wang and illustrator Jason Chin for...
      

East Asian intergenerational picture books

Like Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book Watercress written by Andrea Wang and illustrated by Jason Chin, these recent picture books center warm-hearted, culturally specific, intergenerational East Asian, Asian American, and Asian Canadian family relationships. For older readers, see also AAPI stories and voices from April’s issue of Notes; and more...
      

AAPI stories and voices

The following six YA titles center Asian American and Pacific Islander stories and voices, both in fiction and nonfiction — especially vital in a climate of rising violence. May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and we’ll be posting more links and booklists throughout the month. See also this year’s...
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