Amazing Sports from Around the World (Hmong-English)

A nonfiction tour of sports played around the world, printed with Hmong and English on the page — sepak takraw and kabaddi alongside the ones an American child already knows. Like the rest of Language Lizard's Hmong list it carries no Hmong content and makes no claim to; its value here is being a bilingual title produced to a real standard, in a catalog where most Hmong-English books are self-published. Nonfiction is the specific gap it fills. Hmong children's publishing is almost entirely folktales and refugee stories, so a book that teaches ordinary informational vocabulary — rules, equipment, countries — gives a heritage speaker something to talk about that is not their family's history. Pairs with The Three Little Howlers and The Three Little Sun Bears from the same publisher. For ages 6 to 10, and for dual-language classrooms.