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My Name Is Yoon

My Name Is Yoon

by Gabi Swiatkowska, Helen Recorvits
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About this book

Getting to feel at home in a new country 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! 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. My Name Is Yoonis a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780374351144
ISBN10 0374351147
Series/Work OL2715522W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

age:max:9 age:min:3 award:Ezra_Jack_Keats_award Children's fiction Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration, fiction Fiction First day of school First day of school, fiction grade:max:undefined grade:min:Preschool and up Juvenile fiction Korean Americans Korean americans, fiction lexile:440 lexile_range:401-500 Names, Personal Names, personal, fiction Personal Names Schools

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