The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen

Recommended to me by one of my students, this book was so lovely. A boy and his mother read each other fairy tales — for her, they trigger memories of being a refugee, for him, of his crush on a boy at school. Meanwhile, she worries about her mother in Vietnam, and he worries about coming out. Though the fairy tales are more Grimm than Disney, the story is very sweet, and the artwork is gorgeous.