My Name Is Yoon
What's My Name Is Yoon About
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.
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Gabi Swiatkowska has illustrated one other picture book, Hannah’s Bookmobile Christmas by Sally Derby. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780374351144
- Publication Date
- April 3, 2003
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Original Publication Date
- April 3, 2003
- Page Count
- 29
- Words Per Page
- 31
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
- Lexile® Level
- 480L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~M
- ATOS® Book Level
- 2.3
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 69900
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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