Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month 2009

Web Resources

• Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month (Library of Congress)
• Asian Pacific American Heritage Teaching Resources (Smithsonian Education)
• Celebrating Asian and Pacific-Island Heritage (Lesson planning Article from Education World)
• Biographies of Asian American Scientists (Fact Monster)
• Ancient China Homepage (The Discovery Channel)
• Kids Web Japan
• From Scholastic’s Teacher Website: The Asian Pacific American Heritage main page includes links to author interviews with Allen Say, Ken Mochizuki, Greg Tang, and Ed Young, and to a related booklist.
  

Book Lists

• Celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month (From NYPL)
• Asian/Pacific Heritage (Reading Is Fundamental)
• Asian American Booklist (National Education Association)
• Asian and Pacific American Books (The Horn Book)
• Our Asian Heritage: Children's Books on the Asian American Experience (San Francisco Public Library)

From the Public Libraries of Arlington, Virginia

• Asian Pacific Heritage Month: Books for Young Readers
• Asian Pacific Heritage Month: Books for Teens

From Cynthia Leitich Smith

• Chinese and Chinese Americans in Children’s and YA Books
• Korean and Korean Americans in Children’s and YA Books
• Japanese and Japanese Americans in Children’s and YA Books
  

Articles by Grace Lin

• 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
  

Book Reviews from Wild Rose Reader

• Picture Book Review: Bringing In the New Year (January 23, 2008)
• Two Books for Chinese New Year (February 6, 2008)
• Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers: A Book Review (May 23, 2008)
• Chinese New Year: Picture Books & Activities (January 24, 2009)
  

At Other Blogs

• Fusion Stories (From Blue Rose Girls—Posted by Grace Lin, March 19, 2008)
• Posts Tagged Asian Pacific Heritage Month at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup