May is AAPI Heritage Month. TeachingBooks can help you celebrate, learn about, and honor AAPI heritage anytime!

• Use TeachingBooks to find titles and resources that highlight the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience or were created by AAPI authors or illustrators by browsing our two cultural experience categories: Asian American, Pacific Islander / Oceania.

• Find inspiration in these newly added, curated lists:

  • WOW Dozen: Children's Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage
  • Inspiring Lives: Asian Pacific American Heritage
  • Family Stories: Asian Pacific American Heritage
  • Family Celebrations: Asian Pacific American Heritage
  • Family and Friends: Asian Pacific American Heritage (Middle Grades)
  • Food and Family: Asian Pacific American Heritage
  • Celebrations and Holidays: Asian Pacific American Heritage
  • Asian Pacific American Family Stories
  • Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, 2024

Activities

• Celebrate Asian American Heritage month by featuring this complete video reading of We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America.

• Explore recipients of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature then make bookmarks to share titles with readers.

• Follow along with the illustrator to learn how to draw dumplings after enjoying the complete video reading of Amy Wu and the Warm Welcome together.

• Seek and find in these I-Spy Worksheets for Aloha Everything and guide students through this Virtual Book Tour.

• Listen to the author book talk for Tala Learns to Siva, which celebrates Polynesian dance and Samoan culture. Then, look for a video online to share Polynesian dance with your students.

• See and hear from all the illustrators who contributed to Yes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country in this inspiring video reading. Then, use the research guide, discussion guide, and these activities to extend learning in meaningful ways.

• Encourage students to write about a person or story from their family, after listening to the Meet-the-Author Recording for Kohala Kuamo'o: Nae'ole's Race to Save a King in which the young author tells of how he was inspired to write about an ancestor he was named after.

• Enjoy and share these Meet-the-Author/Illustrator Recordings for new titles:

  • Hanna Cha about The Truth about Dragons
  • Saumiya Balasubramaniam about When I Visited Grandma
  • Thien Pham about Family Style
  • Kate Messner and Grace Lin about Once Upon a Book. As a bonus, learn how to draw rabbit with Grace Lin.
  • Salima Alikhan about I Can Be All Three.
    

• Learn about one family’s long journey to America in this complete video reading of Where Wildflowers Grow.

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Find many more resources and activity ideas in our 2024 Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month post.