My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits, illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska [in AsianWeek]
17 Oct, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Repost
A playfully clever, subversive story with fabulously whimsical pictures about a little Korean girl who doesn’t like her name spelled out in English letters: “Lines. Circles. Each standing alone,” she...
The third installment in the 
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The legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. remembered as a young boy by his older sister, with images spectacularly captured by the award-winning Korean American illustrator Chris Soentpiet.
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