She wore a beautiful pink-and-white gown that looked like a great big birthday cake. I remember my mother reading to me when I was two years old. Even though they experienced many hardships, they always found something to smile about. Determination and hope got them through those difficult times. My grandparents were immigrants from Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, and my parents were children during the Depression years. I grew up in a small city much like the town in Goodbye, Walter Malinski. My Name Is Yoon is a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year. 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. At her new school, she tries out different names-maybe CAT or BIRD. Yoon isn't sure that she wants to be YOON. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. 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. Reading Level: 2.3 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 Physical Information: 0.13' H x 9.77' W x 9' (0.30 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Contributor(s): Recorvits, Helen (Author), Swiatkowska, Gabi (Illustrator)

My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits