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Picture Book Biographies for AAPI Heritage Month

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with these picture book biographies featuring AAPI artists, musicians, architects, scientists, athletes, and more!

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19 items

  • A Boy Named Isamu

    a Story of Isamu Noguchi

    Yang, James, 1960-
    Picture BookNew York : Viking, 2021. — J PICTURE YANG J
  • Yes We Will

    Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country

    Yang, Kelly,
    Picture Book[New York] : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2022] — E184.A75 Y357 2022
  • Sakamoto's Swim Club

    How a Teacher Led An Unlikely Team to Victory

    Abery, Julie,
    BookToronto, ON : Kids Can Press, 2021. — GV838.4.U6 A23 2021x
  • BookChicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2021. — RS73.T83 D34 2021
  • Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight

    Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX

    Bryant, Jen, 1960-
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — E840.8.M544 B79 2022x
  • It Began With a Page

    How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

    Maclear, Kyo, 1970-
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — NC975.5.F85 M33 2019x
  • Paper Son

    the Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist

    Leung, Julie
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2019] — N6537.W647 L48 2019
  • Shapes, Lines, and Light

    My Grandfather's American Journey

    Yamasaki, Katie,
    BookNew York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] — NA737.Y3 Y36 2022
  • Niki Nakayama

    a Chef's Tale in 13 Bites

    Michalak, Jamie,
    BookNew York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, [2021] — TX649.N328 M53 2021
  • Shark Lady

    the True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

    Keating, Jess,
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2017] — QL31.C56 K43 2017
  • Book plus Audio[Fairfax, Virginia] : [Library Ideas, LLC], 2021. — ML418.M115 H6 2021bx
  • BookNew York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2019] — NB237.A82 D37 2019
  • Maya Lin

    Artist-architect of Light and Lines : Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

    Harvey, Jeanne Walker,
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017. — NA737.L48 H38 2017
  • Dumpling Dreams

    How Joyce Chen Brought the Dumpling From Beijing to Cambridge

    Clickard, Carrie (Carrie L.),
    Picture BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2017] — J PICTURE CLICKARD C
  • Fauja Singh Keeps Going

    the True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon

    Singh, Simran Jeet,
    BookNew York : Kokila, [2020] — GV1061.15.F38 S55 2020
  • Yayoi Kusama

    From Here to Infinity

    Suzuki, Sarah J. S,
    BookNew York : Museum of Modern Art, [2017] — N7359.K87 S89 2017x
  • Picture BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999] — PZ7.S2744 Te 1999