My name is Yoon / Helen Recorvits ; pictures by Gabi Swiatkowska.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Frances Foster Books, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cmISBN:- 0374351147
- [E] 21
- PZ7.R24435 My 2003
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Growing Up | Recorvits, Helen | Available | 33111004273062 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 Yoon is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country.