My Name Is Yoon - (Rise and Shine) by Helen Recorvits (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Young Yoon, whose name means Shining Wisdom in Korean, must adjust to life in the United States and learn to write her name in English. Full color.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Getting to feel at home in a new country</b> <p/>Yoon's name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States. Yoon isn't sure that she wants to be YOON. At her new school, she tries out different names - maybe CAT or BIRD. Maybe CUPCAKE! <p/>Helen Recorvits's spare and inspiring story about a little girl finding her place in a new country is given luminous pictures filled with surprising vistas and dreamscapes by Gabi Swiatkowska. <p/><i>My Name Is Yoon</i> is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"With subtle grace, this moving story depicts a Korean girl's difficult adjustment to her new life in America...Swiatkowska's stunningly spare, almost surrealistic paintings enhance the story's message." --<i>Starred, School Library Journal</i> <p/>"As noteworthy for what it leaves out as for what it includes....Yoon may be new to America, but her feelings as an outsider will be recognizable to all children." --<i>Starred, Publishers Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Helen Recorvits </b>is the author of two books for older readers, <i>Where Heroes Hide</i> and <i>Goodbye, Walter Malinski</i>, an NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. She lives in Glocester, Rhode Island. <p/><b>Gabi Swiatkowska</b> has illustrated one other picture book, <i> Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas </i>by Sally Derby. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.</p>
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