The Three Little Sun Bears (Hmong-English)

The companion to The Three Little Howlers, moving the same Three Little Pigs retelling to a tropical Asian rainforest with sun bears in the lead. Hmong and English share the page. Of the pair this is the one to reach for first with Hmong families, simply because the setting is Southeast Asia and the animals are ones the grandparents can name from memory rather than from a nature documentary. As with its companion, the story itself carries no Hmong content and makes no claim to — its value here is being a properly produced bilingual picture book in a catalog where those are rare, from a publisher that treats Hmong as a language worth issuing alongside Spanish and Arabic. For ages 4 to 8, dual-language classrooms, and families reading in both languages at bedtime.