Hello AACP Newsletter Readers.

I’m going to try to keep this message short along with the newsletter this month. I’ve been rather busy with various things including preparing for an event in Cupertino this weekend (Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival, April 30 and May 1). It’s been a number of years since we’ve gone to this event. We hope to see you there.

Thank you to all the publishers and authors that are sending us samples of their books. We appreciate it and I wish I had time to give you a more personal thank you. Please keep up the sending of books and information everyone.

Now all we need are more volunteers to help review the books. We’re getting close to the summer vacation months. If you or someone you know has some free time this summer, we’d really appreciate some help as an intern and/or volunteer. Reviewing books and working on this newsletter are some of the things you could be doing. Please contact us for more information.

As things are starting to open up and events are starting to go back to in-person, I’m starting to hear more about them. Thanks to those that are sending us information. I’ll try to post your notices in our newsletter calendars (see below).

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For this month’s article(s), one of them is not quite an article. I’m just going to let you know of some videos that authors created for our presentations at the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) Virtual Conference. Our author friends created some wonderful presentations. Please have a look.

If you like these presentations, we’re thinking of having regular author postings on our YouTube channel. So if you’re an author that’s given us a sample copy of your book and we like it, let us know if you’d like to create a presentation for your book that we can add to our channel.

The other article for this newsletter is a continuation of the Mas Hongo Interviews Series. We were originally thinking of including his career with the California Flower Market, but we had quite a bit of material on his experience with the family orchid farm that we couldn’t even completely fit in this segment of the series.

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April is poetry month and we couldn’t let it go by without feature some poetry books in our featured books section. For you poetry lovers, please take the time to check out these titles.

In addition, we’ve included a few flower and gardening books to go along with the spring theme of our main article.

We round off our featured books with eight new children’s picture books, children's chapter books, and young adult books.

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Much thanks to Mina for your help with the transcriptions of the Mas interviews, Susan for your help in conducting the original interviews with Mas, and Philip with your continued help with the newsletter.

Thank you very much Mas.

We hope you all enjoy this edition of the newsletter and your spring.

Take care.

Bye.