As he sets about boiling water for their lunch, Chicken panics and makes a run for it.
This is also the graphic designer’s first picture book! īear finds Chicken frozen in the woods and revives Chicken at home. This is my debut picture book, but not the first picture book that Nat Iwata illustrated (though his first that came out). Sumo Joe by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Nat Iwata My kids have overcome their kimchi aversion (too spicy!) using this same method! Recipe and backmatter in the back for adventurous eaters only! She tries different ways to make it more palatable and finally Grandma helps her come up with the perfect solution. Her brothers think she’s a baby because she can’t eat so she’s determined to overcome her eating aversion. Yoomi hates kimchi which is served at every Korean meal. Recent Picture Books by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders No Kimchi for Me by Aram Kim Darshana from Flowering Minds has a complete list of KidLit from South Asian authors: picture books, chapter books and YA novels. I’ve read most of these books (and I’m now dedicating my TBR pile to AAPI authors first) but for those books that I haven’t gotten to yet, I have used publisher book summaries. Can you help me out by adding them, their newest book, and what you think of the book in the comments? Thanks so much! I’m trying to include all AAPI children’s book authors and illustrators with recent books but I know I’ve accidentally forgotten a few. She also wrote several of her own picture-book texts, among them One Afternoon (Orchard, 1994) and Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story (Schwartz & Wade, 2009). Heo illustrated several folktales and picture books by other authors, including Henry’s First-Moon Birthday by Lenore Look (Atheneum, 2001) and Sometimes I’m Bombaloo by Rachel Vail (Scholastic, 2001). In memory of Yumi Heo (from Publishers Weekly):Ĭhildren’s author and illustrator Yumi Heo, creator of more than 30 distinctive books praised for their varying visual perspectives and stylized, often whimsical imagery, died on November 5 after a long battle with cancer. But don’t write about ninjas until you do.įinally, we lost a good one recently. Should those who are not of Japanese descent write about ninjas? What if they did their research? Ok, then. Just slap on a black mask on a character and have them sneak around. Ninja-themed books are selling like hotcakes. But is this cultural appropriation? When Korean food becomes equally as trendy and accepted, are these same Korean restauranteurs going to like Chinese Americans running soondubu or Korean BBQ restaurants? I get why Asians who are not of Japanese descent want to run sushi restaurants. It doesn’t matter if you are the first to ask or your money is green, they simply won’t give you the same access as a Japanese sushi chef who likely also cultivated this relationship based on a web of interlocking relationships that take generations to build. That’s just not how the Japanese do business. I am cool with that too for the same reason.īut even if you are trained in Japan, if you are not Japanese, you will never get access to the best ingredients like the special rice that Jiro uses or the most sought-after fish, particularly if it is sourced from Japan.
Koreans commonly run hybrid sushi Korean restaurants. Taiwan was under Japanese rule for 50 years. I’ve been to a Japanese sushi take-out with decent food. But no one spoke Japanese because no one was actually Japanese. They walk the walk the waitresses wear kimono! If you talk to them in rudimentary Japanese (which my husband and I describe as “sushi bar” Japanese) they look at you blankly. I went there when I first moved to Boston. One of the restaurants, Genji Sushi, has actually won accolades for best Japanese sushi restaurant. Where I live outside of Boston, nearly every single Japanese restaurant that I have been to, I have discovered has been owned and run by someone who is Asian but not of Japanese descent. You might notice that I’m not listing any ninja-themed books on my list. I will be listing them by book genre in the hopes that you, my readers, will check out their books. To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I am going to give a shout-out to all the AAPI children’s book authors and illustrators that I can think of with a book published in the last 18 months.
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