Yoon may be new to America, but her feelings as an outsider will be recognizable to all children. A turning point comes when a classmate offers Yoon a cupcake, and the heroine imagines herself as one her round face a leafed cherry atop the pastry as she floats above the classroom. Recorvits lives in North Scituate, Rhode Island. Swiatkowska received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for her artwork. 'My Name Is Yoon 'was named an ALA Notable Book, among other honors, and Ms. A close-up of Yoon's face shows feline ears protruding from her jet-black hair, while in the background, a real cat balances on a window sill. HELEN RECORVITS and GABI SWIATKOWSKA have collaborated on three books about Yoon. My mother would find me and cuddle up close to me.' Yoon's words betray her sadness and insecurity at relinquishing some of her Korean identity, while Swiatkowska's painterly artwork translates the girl's fantasies. Instead, she fills her paper with other words she learns from the teacher, such as cat. At school, Yoon refuses to write her name. She sits at a large white table where her father teaches her to write her name in English ('I did not like YOON. With a turn of the page, readers see Yoon dwarfed by the seemingly endless checked flooring of her new American house. My Name Is Yoon Written by Helen Recorvits Illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska Published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux ApISBN: 9780374351144 The book My Name is Yoon by Helen Ricorvits is a story about a little girl named Yoon who moved to America with her family from Korea. Swiatkowska's ( Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas) opening spread similarly conveys a sense of starkness, with a landscape of rolling hills and towering trees in small clusters the serene narrator appears in a white dress. I came here from Korea, a country far away,' begins Recorvits's ( Goodbye, Walter Malinski) first-person narrative, as noteworthy for what it leaves out as for what it includes.

My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits