My Name Is Yoon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374351144)

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.

Author: Helen Recorvits
ISBN-10: 0374351147
ISBN-13: 9780374351144
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2003
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.30h x 10.06w x 0.43d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 69900 / My Name Is Yoon

Award: Children's Books of Distinction Awards - Winner
Award: Red Clover Award - Nominee
Award: Monarch Award - Nominee
Award: Charlotte Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/20/2003 pg. 81
Kirkus Review - Children 03/01/2003 pg. 396
Booklist 03/15/2003 pg. 1333
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2003 pg. 328
School Library Journal 05/01/2003 pg. 128
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 337 - Recommended, Satisfactory
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2003 pg. 48
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2004 pg. 782
USA Today 12/03/2003 pg. 1
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2004 pg. 1286
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 337 - Recommended, Satisfactory
School Library Journal 10/01/2004