Grade Level: Elementary 3–5
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Cultural Celebrations Calendar 2025-2026
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Deep Dive: Tanabata Star Festival
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TeachAAPI Cultural Roadshow
For May AAPI History Month 2025, TeachAAPI partnered with the Philippine folk and dance arts group Kayamanan Ng Lahi to bring students on a journey of storytelling, music and movement to learn about Filipino American culture. Through powerful symbolism centered around the bird, students experienced the spirit, strength, and beauty of the Filipino American community.
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Reading Fun for Summer and All Year Round
In 2025, let’s celebrate the joy of reading books that reflect who we are — our backgrounds, interests, personalities, and ways of thinking. Explore stories about people who inspire you, characters who bring you joy, and voices that open up new perspectives. Enjoy books that speak to your heart, spark your curiosity, and make you…
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Rick Kotani’s 400 Million Dollar Summer
Rick is a baseball-obsessed twelve-year-old who moves to Oregon to help take care of his grandfather, but ends up learning unexpected truths about his family and how they mysteriously parallel the Japanese folktale of the fisherman Urashima Taro.
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Incredible: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World
Incredible introduces some of the vast number of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who have made significant and lasting change in the world, including groundbreaking journalist Connie Chung, first Asian American Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, and renowned singer/activist Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole.
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Wat Takes His Shot: The Life & Legacy of Basketball Hero Wataru Misaka
Wat was a college student when the US government forced more than 122,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast into incarceration camps during WWII. He overcame racism and segregation to join his college’s basketball team, but he was treated as an outsider because he was Japanese American. After helping Utah University’s basketball team win…
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A Kids Book About Diversity
Diversity is what makes the world such a beautiful and interesting place. Help kids understand what diversity is and how to actively embrace it in every aspect of their lives. Designed to initiate positive conversations around inclusivity and diversity, it’s the ideal starting point for young minds to learn about togetherness and respect for everyone…
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Passage of the Sun: Songkran
Every year, on April 13th, the people of Thailand bring out the water hoses. Songkran is all about making a fresh start with a splash. Songkran comes from the Sanskrit language meaning “passage of the sun” marks the beginning of the traditional Thai New Year.
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Little Reader Spring Book Club Guide
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Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail
From politics to the US Navy, from laboratories to the boardroom, from the Olympics to authors, and beyond these girls and women leaders shine. The empowering profiles are created by Geisel Honor–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling artist Niña Mata.
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Stories of the Spirit of Justice
Jemar Tisby collects the true, impactful stories of figures from across history—from the well-known to those often forgotten—who resisted racism and created a legacy of hope and perseverance.