Here I Am

story by Patti Kim, illustrations by Sonia Sanchez
Hennepin County Library paperback picturebook
genre: immigration fiction, friendship

This lovely wordless picture book has a lot going on. A boy moves from Asia with his parents and baby sister into a large American city. When he accidentally drops a special seed from home and someone picks it up, he is forced to get out of the apartment and into the new community around him. This would work well with The Arrival, Home of the Brave, or other immigrant stories.