When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Nov, by in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
When My Name Was Keoko is the first title for young audiences to deal with the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century, a torturous part of history about which few...
A remarkable, gracefully written work based on the true story of the authors’ parents’ early lives: their mother, the privileged daughter of a prominent minister in North Korea, and their...
Picturing the Worlds of Chris Soentpiet
No number of rejections could dampen Chris Soentpiet’s determination to succeed and put his artwork forward. Even after being refused by more than 10 publishers as a fresh-faced college...
Journey to the East: Katy Robinson's search for her Korean family in A Single Square Picture
BOISIE, IDAHO — In 1977 at the age of 7, Kim Ji-yun left Seoul and arrived in...
Fox Girl takes readers back to post-Korean War “America Town,” where the abandoned, racially mixed children of U.S. soldiers fought for bare survival and Korean women continued to service occupying GIs in order to put food...
Child's Play: The Writerly Life of Newbery Award-Winner Linda Sue Park
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When Linda Sue Park first received the call last spring that she had won the top honor in children’s literature –...
What child wouldn’t worry about moving away from all that is familiar? Make that a move to another country on the other side of the world, and you’ve got the conundrum 8-year-old Jangmi faces...
Three titles from the We Came to America series from a new publishing house devoted to young adult books – some fabulous stuff, too! For the most part, all three...
The Making of a Hero
Helie Lee's Rescue Mission
When Helie Lee wrote her first book, the bestselling Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and...
The welcome return of Dictee, a seminal Korean American classic – part autobiography, part history, part art, part experimentation.
The Dream of the Audience, with essays by Whitney Museum curator Lawrence R. Rinder and theorist/filmmaker Trinh...
Lyrical debut about Korean American hapa, Fee, who survives child molestration, and the subsequent relationship he unwittingly falls into with his molestor’s teenage son.
Review: 
The Dealmaker
Six years ago, as a brand-new literary agent, Theresa Park was handed a certain letter by her then assistant. It came from the unwanted slush pile (one toss away from the garbage can)...
A sweet, loving story of a family awaiting the arrival of their second child, via airplane from Korea. Illustrated by the fabulously talented 
A memorable husband/wife collaboration rendered again with astonishing images by 
Illustrator Yumi Heo whimsically renders Look's touching new-sibling story about young Jen who helps her grandmother prepare for her little brother's joyous feast day.
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