Yangsook Choi, Author . FSG/Foster $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-30522-2
Korean theater traditions meet American Halloween customs in Choi's (Peach Heaven
) satisfying tale. When Kimin gets ready to choose a trick-or-treat costume, his mother brings him two red boxes from his late grandfather, "a famous dancer in
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Yangsook Choi, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35761-0
Using watercolor washes in hues of yellow, blue-gray, brown and green, Choi (Nim and the War Effort) illustrates a childhood memory, the day in 1976 when the sky rained peaches in her hometown of Puchon, South Korea. During endless rainy days that...
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Yangsook Choi, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-88386-9
This absorbing Korean folktale--with shades of Little Red Riding Hood--marks Choi's (Nim and the War Effort) debut as an author; here a tiger is the foe and two siblings the targeted prey. Long ago, ""before the sun and moon had been created,"" a...
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Yangsook Choi, Author, Yangsook Choi, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35512-8
In language as understated as her paintings, Choi (Nim and the War Effort) describes the daily routine of New Cat, who lives in a Bronx tofu factory owned by her best friend, Mr. Kim. Among the pet's responsibilities are cleaning the computer...
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Yangsook Choi. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-3743-9130-0
In 1976 Bucheon, young Yangsook is busy with homework, writing about “the best peaches in all of South Korea,” which are grown nearby. Though the “orchards painted the mountainside pink and orange,” the sweet fruits are expensive and can be hard to...
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Yangsook Choi. Carolrhoda, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 979-8-7656-1018-3
Active grandmother Halmoni interrupts her busy schedule to spend time with her grandchild in this humorous culinary mystery. When Halmoni—a lively “super senior”—arrives to make special kimchi, her grandchild Keo believes that she actually “cared...
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