My Name Is Yoon

$15.19

Hardcover
Publish Date: April 2003
Language: English
Reading Level: 2.3
EAN: 9780374351144

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Overview

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.

Details

Pages: 32
Dimensions: 9.3 x 10.06 x 0.43 in
Lexile Score: 480
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 0374351147

Awards

2007 Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee (Picture Storybook)
2006 Charlotte Award - Nominee (Primary)
2006 Monarch Award - Nominee (Grades K-3)
2005 Red Clover Award - Nominee (Picture Book)
2005 Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee (Grades K-3)
2004 Children's Books of Distinction Awards - Winner (Picture Book)