*STARRED REVIEW “Imagine that your home is on fire. You’re allowed to save one thing. / Your family and pets are safe … / Your Most Important Thing. Any size.” With that, Ms. Chang challenges her class to name their Most Important Things. “For once we...
Welcome to Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month. The year remains somber, as the APA community combats dramatically increasing anti-Asian violence around the country and continues to mourn the eight people, including six women of Asian descent, killed in a Georgia mass shooting. Despite a U.S....
April is National Poetry Month. Of course, reading, writing, and performing poetry can and should be done any time of the year, but April encourages newbies and doubters to give verses a try. Audiobooks are a particularly effective medium for poetry, with well-chosen narrators enhancing and...
Fan Fiction, 50 Years Later Almost two decades have passed since Linda Sue Park became the first Korean American – and only the second Asian American – to win the Newbery Medal, in 2002 for A Single Shard. She's since published dozens of titles (Gondra's Treasure; Forest of...
Time travel, time paradoxes, time shells, time hollows – are they fantasy? Reality? The following titles are billed as fiction, but they're also a look into endless possibilities. Last week, we brought you audiobooks about time travel for adults, but it's time (sorry) younger readers got...
This is the second in a two-part series of recommended books for youth about the refugee experience. For a list of picture books, click here. Canada, with her groovin' President, functional healthcare system, and more welcoming borders, is currently in the throes of "Month 13," the first month following...
Since 2002 Newbery winner Linda Sue Park’s latest title was published in November 2010, borders shifted (again) and the world recognized the birth of the newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan, on July 9 at midnight. The weekend announcement makes A Long Walk to Water almost...
Maggie is the youngest in a family of baseball lovers. While she might not play herself – girls usually didn’t in the 1950s – she knows the game inside and out. She hangs out with guys...
While sitting in his bedroom grudgingly trying to do his Monday homework, Kevin is shocked to find standing before him, the great archer Chu-mong, a Chinese royal who becomes a Korean king. The lost royal has...
Wow-wow in Chinese over spilt ice cream. Or et-chee in Korean from the ragweed. Or how about ballay-ballay in Punjabi for scoring that winning goal?
Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek, September 29,...
What fabulous fun to share with your littlest ones: ot-ot, ot-ot, ot-ot – that’s Vietnamese for pig-speak!
Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek, September 29, 2005
Readers: Children
Published: 2005...
This latest picture book from the 2002 Newbery Medal Award winner Linda Sue Park introduces an adorable little girl who hurries her mother to finish making bee-bim bop,...
Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park (2002 for A Single Shard) departs from her established historical novels and treks into contemporary middle school America to tell the story of two...
Set in early 19th-century Korea, The Firekeeper’s Son is the very first picture book for Newbery Award-winner Linda Sue Park. When his father is injured, young Sang-hee must take on the very...
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...
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 –...
Linda Sue Park's Post-Newbery Award Life
Although Linda Sue Park was just 9 when her work was first published – a haiku for a children’s magazine – it would be almost three decades before she attempted her...
Linda Sue Park's fascinating tale is rich with the legacy of Korea's unprecedented celadon pottery. The resonating story takes the reader back to the 12th century, when a young orphan becomes the...
