![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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