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walked into Borders bookstore to buy a birthday present for a friend of mine who is also a public Ischool teacher. I wanted to purchase some AsianAmerican children’s trade books for her classroom library. To my dismay, this huge bookseller was limited in its supply of books representing the AsianAmerican experience. Outside of the recent Newbery­ award winner, Kira-Kira (Kadohata, 2004), AsianAmerican children’s literature was not visible or easily available. I scoured the shelves before soliciting help from a salesperson who pointed out a handful of folktales and a couple of books about the internment of Japanese-Americans. There were an even smaller number of books representing the contemporary experiences of Asian-Americans. Adding insult to injury, the salesperson shared with me how much she loved The Five Chinese Brothers (Bishop & Wiese, 1938), a book that many consider to be an affront to Asian-Americans and which has been deemed by scholars to be racist and inauthentic (Cai 1994). This incident clearly illustrates an important point about Asian-American trade books today. In spite of the fact that there are more than 12 million AsianAmericans in this country, only a small percentage of the children’s trade books published focus on this group. For example, Lee (n.d.) of Lee & Low Books stated that only 1.5% of all children’s books published in 1997 were about Asians and/or Asian-Americans and Bucher & Manning (2006) reported that out of 5000 books published in the year 2002, only 91 were by and about Asian-Americans (39). The lack of books focusing on this group presents particular disadvan­ tages in the classroom setting. Because few titles exist, children gain little exposure to Asian-Americans from the books they read in their classrooms. In addition, teachers may lack awareness of whether or not AsianAmericans are portrayed accurately in the books they choose. As a result, students may be denied the opportunity to see into this culture through books; thus, they are denied windows into other cultures. Furthermore, children who are themselves AsianAmerican are denied the opportunity to see them­ selves mirrored in books.

Quantity and Quality: The Need for Culturally Authentic Trade Books in Asian-American Young Adult Literature