Books like Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
By Ai-Ling Louie
For the kid who already knows Cinderella by heart, this is the chance to discover that her story has been told for centuries, in different words, on the other side of the world. Hushed, glowing, and a little mysterious — like a bedtime story passed down for generations.
A poor washerwoman on the island of Martinique uses her mother's magic wand to help her beloved goddaughter Cendrillon win the heart of a rich man's son.
A lonely little girl finds a star that has fallen out of the sky and becomes its friend, but when the star grows sick, she must decide whether to let it go home.
An overworked girl named Blanche shows kindness to a strange old witch-woman and follows her into a world of two-headed cows and dancing rabbits, where talking eggs offer a choice that will test her heart.
A young boy spends his mornings with his Baba, his grandmother, tending her garden and eating together, until the day comes when he gets to care for her the way she's always cared for him.
Guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling, a young child journeys into two different forests, where each grandmother reveals her own true and enchanting version of what dragons really are.
Imprisoned with her family at a WWII incarceration camp, a young woman finds a small library and, in it, a quiet friendship with a man who checks out an armful of books every single day.
When her Chinese immigrant parents pull the car over to gather wild watercress from a muddy Ohio ditch, a young girl feels only embarrassment — until her mother's story about their family's past in China changes how she sees the plant, and her family.
A little girl sets off to find the perfect gift for her mother, journeying up through the sky and meeting the stars, the moon, and the sun along the way.
A curious girl full of wonder loses the special someone who shared her sense of magic, so she locks her heart in a bottle around her neck to keep from feeling the loss.
A father is proud of both his daughters, but when the Great King summons the most worthy young women in the land to appear before him, only one can become queen.
A boy and his refugee family live in poverty in a strange land, and when his father spends their food money on a map instead of bread, the boy is furious — until the map transforms their bare room.
An enslaved man endures separation from his family in Virginia, then hits on a desperate plan: mailing himself in a wooden crate to freedom in the North.
