Foreword: Creating empathy and equity through Asian international children's literature / Lauri Johnson -- Introduction / Daniel Miles Amos -- Classroom applications: Gods, heroes, wisdom, and wit in children's stories from India / Anita Balagopalan -- Thai cultural references and decision making in The Happiness of Kati / Kamolwan Fairee Jocuns -- Chinese children stories, Confucianism, and the family / Haiyue (Fiona) Shan with Daniel Miles Amos -- The monkey within you: Journey to the West, an essential text of Chinese religion and folk cosmology / Daniel Miles Amos -- Reading Sadako with third graders / Trina Lanegan -- Annotated bibliographies of international children's literature from selected Asian countries : China/Taiwan / Miao Ying (janet) Chen -- Indonesia / Tati Lathipatud Durriyah -- Japan / Yae Takimoto Hite and Katrina Manami Knight -- Philippines / Jordan Piano -- South Korea / Eun Yoo -- Thailand / Kamolwan Fairee Jocuns