Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

As I was reading Grace Lin’s post Happy Asian-Pacific Heritage Month at Blue Rose Girls the other day, I thought it might be a good idea to provide links to some of Grace’s other articles that are available at her author website.

Why Couldn’t Snow White Be Chinese: Finding Identity Through Children’s Books

Don’t Judge a Book by Its Character (even if it is Chinese): Why I Wrote “The Year of the Dog”

The Extra Adjective: How I Came to Terms with Being a Multicultural Author


At the Website of the National Education Association

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month NEA's Read Across America has made available a bilingual reading list of books for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The NEA's Asian American Booklist includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles divided by grade level categories: Grades K-4, Grades, 5-8, and Grades 9 and Up.


Grace Visits My Children’s Literature Class

Grace Signing Books

On Thursday, Grace did an audio-visual presentation of how she came to be a children’s book author and illustrator for the students in my children's literature course. We also had a fine question answer session about THE YEAR OF THE DOG, Grace's first novel.

Grace Being Silly!