Are you seeking a colorful, magical, and humorous book to encourage kids to embrace their heritages, cultures, languages, customs, and lifestyles? Have you ever explored Chinese American identities, animal symbols, and STEM themes in a picture book? Do you want to learn more about Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other diverse voices? Accordingly, this book offers some interesting insights about Chinese American culture using catchy rhymes, some bilingual words, memorable illustrations, and silly characters.
Stacy J. Shaneyfelt's The Fudan Five: A Chinese American Tangram Tale For Kids promotes creative thinking and polygon problem solving for math skills, cultural learning, logical thinking, and poetic fun. Translated by Alex Liu and illustrated by Jaqueline Fernandes Machado, it provides an engaging and delightful celebration of a Chinese American child's bicultural and biracial identity. Gain STEM lessons through the tangram's interactive features in this heartwarming tale about family.
Stacy Shanefelt, an educator, parent, and former English teacher in Asia, collaborated with Alex Liu to encourage more equity and inclusion in literacy and to stop Asian hate. Grin and giggle with the drama, puns, geography, poetry, and math. For example, the tangram holds so much culture as it was "Stamped in Fudan, China, it has traveled from really far away. Made of 5 triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, it's his star today!"
Here's what you'll gain from this book:
- 10+ fun facts, basic Chinese words and writing, and cultural knowledge.
- 10+ colorful and kid-friendly illustrations by an incredible global artist.
- 5+ themes of diversity, family, shapes, cultural pride, and more!
- 5+ English vocabulary words with context clues.
- A free gift of 10+ post-reading family fun, art activities, and literacy extensions.
- 5+ examples of rhyming words, similes, metaphors, and figurative language devices.
Buy now to enjoy this Chinese American magic and tangram finesse! This book creatively encourages all readers to proudly honor and boldly express our cultures, customs, languages, histories, and family traditions. Whether you're in Fresno, Fudan, or Florence, let's celebrate culture today!
