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Throughout the story, The Monkey King is unhappy with himself as a monkey and continually tries to become another version of himself. Yang replaces the Buddha from the original story with a Christian influenced deity Tze-Yo-Tzuh. The first storyline is Yang's contemporary rendition of the Chinese story of a Kung Fu practicing Monkey King of Flower-Fruit Mountain, The Monkey King, a character from the classic 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. The story of American Born Chinese consists of three seemingly separate tales, which are tied together at the end of the book. It was colored by cartoonist Lark Pien, who received the 2007 Harvey Award for Best Colorist for her work on the book. It also made the Booklist Top Ten Graphic Novel for Youth, the NPR Holiday Pick, and Time Top Ten Comic of the Year.

Printz Award, the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, the Publishers Weekly Comics Week Best Comic of the Year, the San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, the 2006/2007 Best Book Award from The Chinese American Librarians Association, and Best Graphic Novel/Comic of the Year. Released in 2006 by First Second Books, it was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards in the category of Young People's Literature. I don’t know if that’s actually happened yet, but that’s the hope.Print (paperback & hardback collector's edition)Īmerican Born Chinese is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. That’s what I want: I want kids to be intrigued by the story enough to go back to those educational parts and reread them to try to understand them. With a comic, you can read as quickly and slowly as you need to, and you can reread panels as often as you want. You can rewind it and watch it again, but it’s a little bit clunky. When you’re watching an educational video, the rate at which the information is coming at you is determined by the person showing you. With coding, there are some concepts that can be a little more difficult to understand. My hope is, with some of the tougher concepts, the narrative intrigue will compel the reader through those pages and will also make them want to reread those pages to understand what I’m teaching. I want to tell a compelling story, and I also want to get in some educational concepts. The big thing is this: I want to figure out if you can have narrative goals and educational goals in the same project, or whether they’ll step on each other’s feet.