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Annotated Bibliography
Allison Bueno
Hunter College
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Lin , G. (2011). Ling and Ting Not Exactly the Same. Turtleback Books.
This book is about two twins who are Chinese- American and are identical from head to
toe. Despite their physical similarities, they are very different in their personalities even with
simple tasks to how they cut their hair to how they make traditional dumplings. Written by a
Chinese-American author, this book is good to have in a classroom because it represents the
multitude of ways Chinese immigrants and their second generation immigrant children practice
everyday things differently. This book is also offered in the mandarin language, which creates a
more holistic teaching to emergent bilinguals as Escamilla mentions.This Author shows that
Chinese people do not have one voice or one way of doing or practicing traditional foods and
holidays, something that Adichie mentions in her Ted talk as well as Bartolome. As Bartolome
mentions, finding and creating connections with culture found in books, television and more
brings encouragement and learning. In this case showing two young girls who are different but
look the same represents the larger culture of China and is open enough that it allows children
whose first language is Mandarin or cantonese, to be able to easily relate to. Other children can
also benefit from this because it helps them realize that one culture has a multitude of ways from
practicing the same thing and that not every person from the same race is alike.

Bunting, E., & Diaz, D. (1996). Going home. New York: HarperCollins .
This book is about a Mexican immigrant working class family going home for the
holidays, crossing the border from California to Mexico. This book brings a lot of real issues to
the table such as crossing a boarder, something that may have happened with some mexican
immigrant families as well as discussing the beauty of family and their culture. This book really
embraces family, traditions with colors and pictures of native mexico. Family is the most
important thing in school as well as in hispanic culture as Singer and Flores mention in their
article Stories From The Heart and incorporating this book in the classroom can definitely
incorporate family involvement and can incorporate a lesson on how their traditions are when
they go home for the holidays regardless of their race.
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Pena, M. D., Robinson, C., & Thomann, R. (2015). Last stop on Market Street. New York, NY: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA).
This book is about a child and his grandma taking a ride around the city. Through the city,
his grandma takes the boy through the dirty parts of town. This energetic ride through a bustling
city highlights the wonderful pee only grandparent and grandchild can share. This book
highlights the importance of tradition old and new as well as seeing beauty through the eyes of
an older and wiser person who is usually our grandparents. This is relatable to children who have
traditions regardless of race of valuing their grandparents giving readers a general view which is
something the research article by Mendoza and Reese are important to provide in a multicultural
book for children.

Alexie, S., & Morales, Y. (2016). Thunder Boy Jr. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Thunderboy JR. is a boy whose name was traditionally passed down by his father, a
Native American Indian but wants to find his own name and identity. Finding your own identity
as incoming first or second generation immigrants is something teachers need to keep in mind to
help students ease their process of finding their way into school and in their world. These are
things we need to explicitly teach to emerging bilinguals as A Days Work article mentions as
well as Delpit. Although this book also does not have the words in multiple languages to help
children through translanguaging and keeping both languages, as Seltzer and Celic mention,
providing heritage is also important and that is what this book does through the identity of name.

Cheng, A., & Halpin, A. (2012). The year of the book. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
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In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is
that friendship is complicated. When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Anna feels
that books provide what real life cannot which is amity. Books however, cant tell Anna how to
find a true friend. For first and second generation immigrants growing up, this is another good
identity book. It also is relatable because as children not only do they worry about learning
another language, but also about feeling accepted and finding friends. This book also has many
chinese characters and celebrates the language and culture as well as identity and making friends
that are not within your culture. This book can create a holistic bilingual perspective as well as
improve and broaden socio culturalism in the classroom as Martinez-Roldan, C mentions.