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August 26, 2026
Hello AACP Newsletter Blog Readers.
Apologies for not updating this page for awhile. Even though this blog has not been updated since April of this year, we have been emailing out the newsletters each month to our subscribers. So if you want to get our newsletters as soon as possible, please do subscribe.
I won’t go into details about the articles and book selections that we missed with this blog, but here are links to the three missed newsletter –
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For our July newsletter, we have an interview with Grant Din about the possible closure of the National Archives at San Francisco (actual location is San Bruno). Grant Din is part of an organization called Save Our National Archives (SONA) that is heading the effort to prevent the closure of the San Bruno Archives. Closing this archive is like closing a place that is a major research library and museum. Please read this article and see how you can help.
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For our book selection this month we have folktales and speculative fiction for everyone.
Some of our featured children’s books include –
• novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s book called “Grandma and the Great Gourd”
• a creation story of Hawaii called “Ola Na Iwi: I am Hawaii”
• a Korean folktale called “The Legend of Ban-Dal” about a village, a little girl, a black bear, and living in harmony with nature
and three more great folktales.
The speculative fiction novels include books by renowned authors R. F. Kuang, Nghi Vo, Kazuo Ishiguro, and more. Check them all out.
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One last thing, we have some sad news to report. AACP has lost one of our staunch supporters and board member, Clifford Hayashi. Cliff came to help at many of the events we attended. So you may have met him before. Cliff was also a retired aerospace engineer, a researcher and historian, a writer for the newspaper NikkeiWest, and one of the biggest fans of the Stanford athletics program (you can watch a documentary about Cliff called “Cliff, Superfan!”)
Goodbye Cliff. We will miss you!
Leonard Chan
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