Annotated Bibliography
Chinese American
Resources for teachers
Hoobler, D., Hoobler, T., & Lord, B. B. (1994). The Chinese American Family Album (American Family Albums). New York: Oxford University Press.
The family album contains various materials such as letters and newspaper articles. It provides personal remembrance of Chinese immigrants and their descendants.
Sinnott, S. (1993). Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans. Chicago: Children's Press.
It is a biographical sketch that describes some Asian Americans and Pacific Americans.
Lowe, F. (Director) (1988). Carved in Silence [DVD].
This DVD introduces the experience of Chinese immigrants in Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, and was a detention center for Chinese immigrants from 1920-1940.
Yep, L. (1997). Thief of hearts . New York: HarperCollins.
The book describes that a character Stacy Palmer does not realize her identity and true culture. When she meets another girl from China, a series of events happens beside them. Then, Stacy Palmer starts to realize she is a Chinese American.
Cheng, A. (2013). The Year of the Book (an anna wang novel). Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers.
The novel describes a Chinese immigrant Anna who is struggling with interacting with other classmates, and she thinks she has no real friends; her only book is her friend. She is an outsider of the classroom.
Resources for children
Levine, E., & Björkman, S. (1995). I Hate English!. Danbury: Scholastic
It describes a character, who is from Hong Kong, that does not want to learn English because the character worries that she will lose her identity in the USA. (Ages 5+)
Yang, G. L. (2008). American Born Chinese . New York: Square Fish.
It is a comic book that delivers about a boy who was American born to Chinese immigrant parents, and he was confused with his identity. And he is struggling with blending into American circles. (Ages 10+)
Yang, G. L. (2013). Boxers & Saints Boxed Set. New York: First Second Books.
The two volumes of comic books introduces two analogous stories, one where Boxers explains about a Chinese boy who is to detest and rebel the Western interlopers; however, Saints delivers about a Chinese girl who has a good friendship with Christian missionaries. (Ages 10+)
Yep , L. (2001). The Amah. New York: Puffin books.
The book is about a girl who has to become a babysitter at home because her mother finds a new job to become an amah. Because of this, the girl misses her preferred ballet dance class, and she is struggling with balancing being a babysitter and going to class. (Ages 11+)
Wong, J. S., & Chodos-Irvine, M. (2006). Apple Pie Fourth of July. Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers.
The picture book introduces a girl’s family who is an owner of a Chinese restaurant, and the girl does not believe Americans will come to eat Chinese food on July 4th. But her family is still keep the restaurant open to operate during the holiday. (Ages 5+)
Lee, M., & Choi, Y. (2006). Earthquake . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The picture book narrates the experiences that a Chinese American family encounters in a San Francisco earthquake in Chinatown, and they have to become refugees to look for a safe place. (Ages 5+)
D'Antonio, N. (1997). Our Baby from China: An Adoption Story. Park Ridge: Albert Whitman & Company.
It is a collection of photographs, and it describes experiences of how the author adopts a Chinese child from China. (Ages 5+)
Wong, D. H. T. (2012). Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America . Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press.
It is a graphic novel that describes the experiences of Chinese immigrant Wong family in “Gold Mountain”. (Ages 8+)
Lee, M. (2002). Nim and the War Effort (sunburst book). New York: Square Fish.
The picture book introduces a Chinese American girl Nim who is working on collecting newspapers during WW II because her classmate looks down her. (Ages 5+)
Yin. (2003). Coolies. New York: Puffin.
The picture book describes Chinese immigrants who are working hard on building railroads in the western United States. (Ages 5+)
Japanese American
Resources for children
Friedman, I. R. (1984). How my parents learned to eat. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The child narrator tells the story of how her Japanese mother and American sailor father learned about each other’s cultures and food. (Ages 4+)
Kids explore America's Japanese American heritage. (1994). Santa Fe, N.M.: J. Muir Publications.
Presents writings by students in grades three to seven on topics of Japanese American culture, including sports, cooking, history, and art. This book is easy for
students to read bceasue it is by students which makes it a great resource for kids.
Kiyama, H. Y. (1999). The four immigrants manga: a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924. Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
This book is a wonderful source document for anyone interested in gaining insight on the Japanese immigration experience in San Francisco. It is very
interesting because it is the first Japanese-American comic.
Little, M. O. (1996). Yoshiko and the Foreigner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
This is a personal story of the author’s family and a time when their lives changed all because a woman was brave enough to break tradition. (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (1993). Grandfather's journey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
A study of Say's grandfather's life both in Japan and his experience coming to America. (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (2009). Tea with milk. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Feeling fed up as outsiders in America, May’s parents move back to Japan only causing May to also feel like an outsider. This story follows May’s journey trying
to find herself and a home. (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (2009). Tree of cranes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Told with quiet charm and dignity, the story of a mother who shares with her son in Japan a part of her American childhood: Christmas. Ages (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (2011). Drawing from memory. Scholastic Inc.
This is a graphic novel that explains Say’s history as an artist during World War II. He was rejected by his father and looked up to his mentor, Noro Shinpei, a
famous cartoonist. Say worked hard as an artist and became successful. This book explains his life history through a combination of memoirs, graphics and
narratives.
Smith, C. L. (2012, January 1). Cynthia Leitich Smith: Official Author Site and Home of Children's & Young Adult Literature Resources. Japanese and Japanese Heritage in Children's Books: Bridge Books and Immigration. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/diversity/asian_am/japanese_am/nihon_immigration.html
This website shows a lot books for teaching diversity such as immigration and heritage.
Stanley, J. (1994). I am an American: a true story of Japanese internment. Crown Publishers.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Young Shi Nomura was among the 120,000 American citizens who lost everything when he was sent by the U.S.
government to Manzanar, an interment camp in the California desert, simply because he was of Japanese ancestry.
Takagi, R. (1989). Democracy and race. New York: Chelsea House Pub (L).
This book is an historical account of Japanese immigrant experiences during World War II. Information is personal and also collected from oral history,
speeches, songs, and other articles. This has information about identity, oppression, and culture. (Ages 11+)
Tan, S. (2007). The arrival. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an
unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects
and indecipherable languages. The immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment.
Tung, A. (1999). Song of the Stranger. Roxbury Park Books/Lowell House Juvenile.
A Japanese-Americn girl feels she has a strong sense of Japanese identity and expresses herself through art. However, the death of a relative forces her to go
to Japan and learn more about her heritage. This tale shows many lessons learned about culture, identity, and the experience of the Japanes during WWII (Ages
9+)
Uchida, Y. (1993). A jar of dreams. Simon and Schuster.
Set in California, this story talks about a Japanes-American girl who wishes she could fit in like everyone else. Starting Japanese lessons and getting to know
her aunt changes how she thinks. (Ages 8+)
Resources for teachers
Daniels, R. (1988). Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. University of Washington Press.
This book describes both Chinese and Japanese immigration history to the United States of America. The history goes from the mid 1800s to the early 1980s.
The author makes comparisons between Chinese and Japanese experiences and also Asian and European experiences with immigration to America.
Densho. (2014). The Japanese American legacy project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II, Japanese-American stories. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.densho.org/
This website will help to teach about immigration to students. There is a learning center, archives, history, and links to other sources.
Hoobler, D., & Hoobler, T. (1998). The Japanese American family album. Oxford University Press.
This is an in depth look at the history and experiences of Japanese immigrants in America. This book is very informative and has pictures, documents, letters,
stories, and interviews.
Houston, J. W., & Houston, J. D. (2012). Farewell to Manzanar. Random House LLC.
This book discusses the discrimination many Japanese Americans faced during WWII. It also talks about many other issues that are common to all immigrants
who come to the united states like cultural and language differences.
Immigration. (n.d.). Teacher Resources - Library of Congress. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/japanese.html
This website shows several situations and beautiful photos, that are very educational about immigration. This will be good for children to see and it will be easy
for children to learn from these pictures.
Ithaca College. (n.d.). Asian-American Experience, Issues, and Resources. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.ithaca.edu/wise/asian_american/
This website will introduce about Asian-American Experience, Issues, and Resources. There are a lot of resources for teaching in schools and classroom.
Tamura, L. (1993). The Hood River Issei: an oral history of Japanese settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. University of Illinois Press.
This book is a collection of oral history stories from the Japanese immigrants who went to Oregon. Most of these stories are from women who talk about their
experiences leaving Japan, working, and surviving WWII.
Wang, J. S. (2004). Race, gender, and laundry work: the roles of Chinese laundrymen and American women in the United States, 1850-1950. Journal of American Ethnic History, 58-99.
This book has different groups of immigrants; teaching about the two groups will help others understand different reasons for choosing to move to America and
different experiences. It focuses on American history of immigration.
Smetana, L., Odelson, D., Burns, H., & Grisham, D. L. (2009). Using graphic novels in the high school classroom: Engaging deaf students with a new genre. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53(3), 228-240.
This artucle supports students' learning about immigration through comics and graphic novels.
Resources for teachers
Hoobler, D., Hoobler, T., & Lord, B. B. (1994). The Chinese American Family Album (American Family Albums). New York: Oxford University Press.
The family album contains various materials such as letters and newspaper articles. It provides personal remembrance of Chinese immigrants and their descendants.
Sinnott, S. (1993). Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans. Chicago: Children's Press.
It is a biographical sketch that describes some Asian Americans and Pacific Americans.
Lowe, F. (Director) (1988). Carved in Silence [DVD].
This DVD introduces the experience of Chinese immigrants in Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, and was a detention center for Chinese immigrants from 1920-1940.
Yep, L. (1997). Thief of hearts . New York: HarperCollins.
The book describes that a character Stacy Palmer does not realize her identity and true culture. When she meets another girl from China, a series of events happens beside them. Then, Stacy Palmer starts to realize she is a Chinese American.
Cheng, A. (2013). The Year of the Book (an anna wang novel). Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers.
The novel describes a Chinese immigrant Anna who is struggling with interacting with other classmates, and she thinks she has no real friends; her only book is her friend. She is an outsider of the classroom.
Resources for children
Levine, E., & Björkman, S. (1995). I Hate English!. Danbury: Scholastic
It describes a character, who is from Hong Kong, that does not want to learn English because the character worries that she will lose her identity in the USA. (Ages 5+)
Yang, G. L. (2008). American Born Chinese . New York: Square Fish.
It is a comic book that delivers about a boy who was American born to Chinese immigrant parents, and he was confused with his identity. And he is struggling with blending into American circles. (Ages 10+)
Yang, G. L. (2013). Boxers & Saints Boxed Set. New York: First Second Books.
The two volumes of comic books introduces two analogous stories, one where Boxers explains about a Chinese boy who is to detest and rebel the Western interlopers; however, Saints delivers about a Chinese girl who has a good friendship with Christian missionaries. (Ages 10+)
Yep , L. (2001). The Amah. New York: Puffin books.
The book is about a girl who has to become a babysitter at home because her mother finds a new job to become an amah. Because of this, the girl misses her preferred ballet dance class, and she is struggling with balancing being a babysitter and going to class. (Ages 11+)
Wong, J. S., & Chodos-Irvine, M. (2006). Apple Pie Fourth of July. Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers.
The picture book introduces a girl’s family who is an owner of a Chinese restaurant, and the girl does not believe Americans will come to eat Chinese food on July 4th. But her family is still keep the restaurant open to operate during the holiday. (Ages 5+)
Lee, M., & Choi, Y. (2006). Earthquake . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The picture book narrates the experiences that a Chinese American family encounters in a San Francisco earthquake in Chinatown, and they have to become refugees to look for a safe place. (Ages 5+)
D'Antonio, N. (1997). Our Baby from China: An Adoption Story. Park Ridge: Albert Whitman & Company.
It is a collection of photographs, and it describes experiences of how the author adopts a Chinese child from China. (Ages 5+)
Wong, D. H. T. (2012). Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America . Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press.
It is a graphic novel that describes the experiences of Chinese immigrant Wong family in “Gold Mountain”. (Ages 8+)
Lee, M. (2002). Nim and the War Effort (sunburst book). New York: Square Fish.
The picture book introduces a Chinese American girl Nim who is working on collecting newspapers during WW II because her classmate looks down her. (Ages 5+)
Yin. (2003). Coolies. New York: Puffin.
The picture book describes Chinese immigrants who are working hard on building railroads in the western United States. (Ages 5+)
Japanese American
Resources for children
Friedman, I. R. (1984). How my parents learned to eat. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The child narrator tells the story of how her Japanese mother and American sailor father learned about each other’s cultures and food. (Ages 4+)
Kids explore America's Japanese American heritage. (1994). Santa Fe, N.M.: J. Muir Publications.
Presents writings by students in grades three to seven on topics of Japanese American culture, including sports, cooking, history, and art. This book is easy for
students to read bceasue it is by students which makes it a great resource for kids.
Kiyama, H. Y. (1999). The four immigrants manga: a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924. Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
This book is a wonderful source document for anyone interested in gaining insight on the Japanese immigration experience in San Francisco. It is very
interesting because it is the first Japanese-American comic.
Little, M. O. (1996). Yoshiko and the Foreigner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
This is a personal story of the author’s family and a time when their lives changed all because a woman was brave enough to break tradition. (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (1993). Grandfather's journey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
A study of Say's grandfather's life both in Japan and his experience coming to America. (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (2009). Tea with milk. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Feeling fed up as outsiders in America, May’s parents move back to Japan only causing May to also feel like an outsider. This story follows May’s journey trying
to find herself and a home. (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (2009). Tree of cranes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Told with quiet charm and dignity, the story of a mother who shares with her son in Japan a part of her American childhood: Christmas. Ages (Ages 4+)
Say, A. (2011). Drawing from memory. Scholastic Inc.
This is a graphic novel that explains Say’s history as an artist during World War II. He was rejected by his father and looked up to his mentor, Noro Shinpei, a
famous cartoonist. Say worked hard as an artist and became successful. This book explains his life history through a combination of memoirs, graphics and
narratives.
Smith, C. L. (2012, January 1). Cynthia Leitich Smith: Official Author Site and Home of Children's & Young Adult Literature Resources. Japanese and Japanese Heritage in Children's Books: Bridge Books and Immigration. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/diversity/asian_am/japanese_am/nihon_immigration.html
This website shows a lot books for teaching diversity such as immigration and heritage.
Stanley, J. (1994). I am an American: a true story of Japanese internment. Crown Publishers.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Young Shi Nomura was among the 120,000 American citizens who lost everything when he was sent by the U.S.
government to Manzanar, an interment camp in the California desert, simply because he was of Japanese ancestry.
Takagi, R. (1989). Democracy and race. New York: Chelsea House Pub (L).
This book is an historical account of Japanese immigrant experiences during World War II. Information is personal and also collected from oral history,
speeches, songs, and other articles. This has information about identity, oppression, and culture. (Ages 11+)
Tan, S. (2007). The arrival. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an
unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects
and indecipherable languages. The immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment.
Tung, A. (1999). Song of the Stranger. Roxbury Park Books/Lowell House Juvenile.
A Japanese-Americn girl feels she has a strong sense of Japanese identity and expresses herself through art. However, the death of a relative forces her to go
to Japan and learn more about her heritage. This tale shows many lessons learned about culture, identity, and the experience of the Japanes during WWII (Ages
9+)
Uchida, Y. (1993). A jar of dreams. Simon and Schuster.
Set in California, this story talks about a Japanes-American girl who wishes she could fit in like everyone else. Starting Japanese lessons and getting to know
her aunt changes how she thinks. (Ages 8+)
Resources for teachers
Daniels, R. (1988). Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. University of Washington Press.
This book describes both Chinese and Japanese immigration history to the United States of America. The history goes from the mid 1800s to the early 1980s.
The author makes comparisons between Chinese and Japanese experiences and also Asian and European experiences with immigration to America.
Densho. (2014). The Japanese American legacy project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II, Japanese-American stories. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.densho.org/
This website will help to teach about immigration to students. There is a learning center, archives, history, and links to other sources.
Hoobler, D., & Hoobler, T. (1998). The Japanese American family album. Oxford University Press.
This is an in depth look at the history and experiences of Japanese immigrants in America. This book is very informative and has pictures, documents, letters,
stories, and interviews.
Houston, J. W., & Houston, J. D. (2012). Farewell to Manzanar. Random House LLC.
This book discusses the discrimination many Japanese Americans faced during WWII. It also talks about many other issues that are common to all immigrants
who come to the united states like cultural and language differences.
Immigration. (n.d.). Teacher Resources - Library of Congress. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/japanese.html
This website shows several situations and beautiful photos, that are very educational about immigration. This will be good for children to see and it will be easy
for children to learn from these pictures.
Ithaca College. (n.d.). Asian-American Experience, Issues, and Resources. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.ithaca.edu/wise/asian_american/
This website will introduce about Asian-American Experience, Issues, and Resources. There are a lot of resources for teaching in schools and classroom.
Tamura, L. (1993). The Hood River Issei: an oral history of Japanese settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. University of Illinois Press.
This book is a collection of oral history stories from the Japanese immigrants who went to Oregon. Most of these stories are from women who talk about their
experiences leaving Japan, working, and surviving WWII.
Wang, J. S. (2004). Race, gender, and laundry work: the roles of Chinese laundrymen and American women in the United States, 1850-1950. Journal of American Ethnic History, 58-99.
This book has different groups of immigrants; teaching about the two groups will help others understand different reasons for choosing to move to America and
different experiences. It focuses on American history of immigration.
Smetana, L., Odelson, D., Burns, H., & Grisham, D. L. (2009). Using graphic novels in the high school classroom: Engaging deaf students with a new genre. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53(3), 228-240.
This artucle supports students' learning about immigration through comics and graphic novels.