My Chinatown: One Year in Poems
Illustrator
Kam Mak
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2001
ISBN
9780060291907
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
My Chinatown explores a boy's first year in the United States—after emigrating from China—as he grows to love his new home in Chinatown through food, games, and the people surrounding him.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Diversity Topics
Culture/Ethnicity; Bilingual; Immigrants and refugees; bilingual child; immigrant family; immigrant children; family separation; relocation; resettlement
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Chinese)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Kiriyama Prize, 2002, Notable Book, Fiction
Parents' Choice Award, 2002, Recommended, Picture Book
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, 2002, Winner, Grades K-3
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2003
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2002 Young Reader
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, Supplement, 2003
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Notable Children's Books, 2003 Younger Reader
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2003
Keywords
New Years; Chinese food; seasons; birds; missing home; chess; sewing machine; New York; Hong Kong; moon festival; firecrackers; dragon; lanterns; Chinatown
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Mak, Kam, "My Chinatown: One Year in Poems" (2001). Diverse Families. 1736.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1736