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New York City
May 2001

Celebrating Asian Heritage Month with Books
by Selene S. Vasquez

Picture Book: Ages 8 Thru 12

Coolies by Yin. Illustrated by Chris Soentpiet. (Philomel, 40 pp., $16.99).

Two Chinese brothers undertake an arduous voyage across the Pacific Ocean to work on the transcontinental railroad of mid-nineteenth century America. Grand scale watercolor artwork offers cinematic drama to this immigrant story of labor and strife.

Folk Tales: Ages 8 Thru 12

The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women by Katrin Tchana. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. (Little, Brown and Co., 113 pp., $21.95).

Eighteen folk tales featuring swashbuckling heroines with a queen-size dose of feminine courage, strength, and brilliant wit. Electrifying artwork boosts the energy and sheer poetry of these non-wimpy women.

Biography: Ages 8 Thru 10

Basho and the Fox by Tim Myers. Illustrated by Oki S. Han. (Cavendish, 32 pp., $15.95).

Believing itself a better poet than humans, a fox offers the seventeenth-century Japanese poet, Basho all the cherries from a nearby tree if he can write one good haiku. The imagery of nature in this fictionalized biography is reminiscent of the elegant simplicity of this ancient form of poetry.

Nonfiction: Ages 12 And Up

Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II. (Clarion, 118 pp., $16.00).

An eye-opening account of Japanese-American soldiers’ courageous war feats to prove their loyalty to the United States at the height of anti-Japanese sentiment. The plight of their internment is clearly explained with a map, chronology, and bibliography listing additional books, videos, and web sites on this sensitive topic.

Selene S. Vasquez is a media specialist at Orange Brook Elementary School in Hollywood, Florida. She is formerly a children’s librarian for the New York Public Library.

 

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