Hello AACP Newsletter Readers.

How’s your summer going? Are you getting some much needed rest and doing your summer reading?

We hope you count our newsletter as part of your summer reading list. I think we have two articles that are worth reading.

For our first article, we have “An interview with Judith Kajiwara: Children's Book Author and Butoh Performer.” Her new children’s book “Silly Green Mask,” with illustrations by Felicia Hoshino, is a wonderful story about a girl who realizes the importance of her love for her sister.

In this interview Judith Kajiwara also covers Butoh dance, Reiki energy healing, and more.

For our second article, we have a report on “The Recent United States Supreme Court Decision on Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Law.”

I know this may not be light summer reading, but it’s something that you may have missed during the numerous Supreme Court decisions made at the end of their last term.

Anyone that has an interest in fighting discrimination should have an interest in this case and decision.

The one thing that the majority of Supreme Court Justices has in common with the justices that dissented (now that the decision has been rendered) is that the work of preventing discrimination is left in our hands. The question now is how do we communicate across the divide to convince those that wish to discriminate that it is wrong to do so in the public sector.

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For our featured books, we have part 2 of our summer book reading list.

Along with Judith Kajiwara’s new book we have children’s books about the Indian festival of Raksha Bandhan (August 30) called Thread of Love; a book about a Filipino grandfather and granddaughter - Lolo's Sari-Sari Store; a book about a Korean grandmother and granddaughter – Sora’s Seashells; we have Muon Thi Van’s latest book, The Shape of You and Kat Zhang’s latest book in her Amy Wu series called Amy Wu and the Ribbon Dance.

The featured book “How Do You Live?” is a translation of a novel that was published in 1937. The animator Hayao Miyazaki references this book in his new movie “The Boy and the Heron” (the Japanese title of the film translates to “How Do You Live?”).

Author Ruth Ozeki (My Years of Meats and All Over Creation) has a new book called The Book of Form and Emptiness.

I won’t go over all the books, but they are all well worth checking out. We hope you find your summer read among them.

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Thank you Judith Kajiwara and our newsletter staff.

Take care everyone!