Hello AACP Newsletter Readers.

Over the last eight weeks, we’ve been to five events – two of those events were two day events and one of the events we helped plan and organized. Wow, it’s been a busy spring.

Thank you to all the authors (ten of you, some of you multiple times) that came to sign your books at our events, thanks to all of you that dropped by to see us at these events, and thank you to all of the event organizers.

As you can guess, we didn’t have a lot of time to work on this newsletter. For our first article, we have a brief report on ‘The US Office of Management and Budget’s New Definition for “Asian” and the Implications for What AACP Focuses On’ and an even shorter photo, audio, and video retrospective on the five events we’ve participated in. For those of you that missed our Authors Day event at the San Mateo Main Library, be sure to check out the links in the second article to two author interviews that were done at this event.

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For our book selection, I’ve included one book that I should have included for our AAPI Heritage Month book selection last month. It’s a children’s book on basketball player Jeremy Lin called “If Lin Can: How Jeremy Lin Inspired Asian Americans to Shoot for the Stars.” Another featured children’s book called “Luna's Yum Yum Dim Sum” (part of the Story Telling Math series) is by Natasha Yim, one of our guest authors that came to our Authors Day event. Thank you Natasha.

Another children’s book called “Simone” is about a Vietnamese American girl that is forced to flee her home due to wild fires and is comforted by her mother who recounts her experience in Vietnam during a flood.

We have four anthology folktale books including – “The Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac: Traditional Fables in Chinese and English - A Bilingual Storybook for Kids,” “Alternative Alamat: An Anthology: Myths and Legends from the Philippines,” “Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa,” and “Burmese Children's Favorite Stories: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales.”

And lastly, we have ten books for LGBT Pride Month. Hey everyone, LGBTQ+ books are some of the most banned books in America. So please support these authors and the LGBTQ+ people in your life. Check out the Trevor Project’s web page on “Facts About Suicide Among LGBTQ+ Young People” or their page on “A Guide to Testifying Against Harmful Bills for Parents and Supportive Adults.”

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Apologies to those of you that informed me about your events and I didn’t get to announce it here or on our blog. I hope to have more time to support your efforts in the coming months, so please continue to let us know about your events and announcements.

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Thank you to all the AACP volunteers, staff, and friends that helped during the last eight months. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Take care and have a wonderful summer.