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When My Name Was Keoko 36 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Yearling, 2004
Great book for adults and teens
This is a beautiful and powerful book that every adolescent girl and boy should read. I especially loved the way Park weaves Keoko's coming-of-age story in a way that honored traditional Korean values. It would have been easy to use the story to disparage those values, an all too common technique these days. But Park resisted that urge and the result is a warm-hearted and endearing story that ...
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Project Mulberry14 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Yearling, 2007
Berry Good Reading
This is a great little book.
I love Linda Sue Park. She does her homework! What she doesn't already know about, she finds out about before she writes about it. She already knows about being a Korean American, and she handles this subject deftly and naturally, as only someone who has really been there can do. She didn't know about silk worms, so she recruited family members to raise two ...
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Archer's Quest 2 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2006
Helping historical Korean figures is not for the weak!
I just cannot for the life of me figure out what to do with Linda Sue Park. Some authors write books that are spot-on gold all the time. Others can't churn out a decent title no matter how hard they try. Then there's Linda Sue Park. Garnering a coveted Newbery award early in her career, Park has had the unenviable job of showing the world that she remains worthy of that honor with every ...
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The Firekeeper's Son 6 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2004
Burn, baby, burn
I don't know why I feel this way, but you'd think there would be a lot of Newbery winning children's authors who'd switch their focus from time to time to picture books. And yet, this is not the case. In fact, it's rather rare for someone of Lunda Sue Park's stature to go about writing for children younger than her usual fare. It's almost as if she's slumming. But Park (who won the Newbery ...
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Bee-bim Bop!13 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2005
We are fam-i-ly!
Remember when you were a kid and your mama made your favorite meal? You would smell it cooking and just could not wait? Well, hang on, it's time for Bee-bim bop! The little girl is part of the meal preparation from beginning to end. That is why she can sing a multitude of variations of "Hurry, hurry."
Instead of waiting on the sidelines or in the den, Linda Sue Park pulls the reader along ...
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Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems)1 review
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2007
Three Silly Chicks Review
Yes, yes, we know we're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but it's tough to gaze upon the whimsical dust jacket of TAP DANCING ON THE ROOF without feeling hopefully giddy about the pages inside. Happily for us and you and children of all ages, the poems within more than live up to the promise of that little red-dressed girl and her very large scissors.
As explained in the Author's ...
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A Single Shard136 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Thorndike Press, 2002
Simple and perfect.
What an absolutely captivating story! I am somewhat familiar with stories from Japan or China, but I guess I am just oblivious to contemporary child-aimed Korean-inspired literature. What a horrible elementary school teacher I am. Anywho, I first heard about this book back in college in a children's lit class... but never bothered to read it until my little sister found it. She read it and ...
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What Does Bunny See?: A Book of Colors and Flowers1 review
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2005
A visual book of colors and flowers
Maggie Smith's very colorful and appealing drawings are the highlight of a visual book of colors and flowers in Linda Sue Park's What Does Bunny See? Each page uses flowers to teach associated colors in a very easy reader for the young.
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Keeping Score3 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2008
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "NO AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL GAME OF LIFE!"
This heartfelt, endearing, nostalgic and educational tale is set in Brooklyn, New York in July 1951. The main character is Maggie Fortini who is nine going on ten years-old. She is known to everyone as Maggie-o and her older brother is known as Joey-Mick, both being named after their Father's favorite New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio. But here's the "rub": Maggie-o, Joey-Mick, and their Mom, ...
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The Kite Fighters12 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books, 2000
A childrens review
The main characters are Young-sup and Kee-sup.Young-sup and Kee-sup are two brothers who live in ancient Korea. This book takes place in Korea in 1473.The main idea of this book is a festival where you fight kites. I think this book would be good for a fourth and fifth grader. I found this book interesting. I would rate this book five stars. What I like about this book is the formula they ...
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Author's Quest
Linda Sue Park
Listening Library, 2007
Unabridged on 2 CDs in original shrinkwrap by Newbery Award winner. A young boy is bewildered by a man with a bow and arrow who lands in his room. Does he call 911? What should he do?
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The Firekeeper's Son
Linda Sue Park, 2004
Hardcover book & audio cassette
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Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))1 review
Linda Sue Park, Julia Durango, ...
Charlesbridge Publishing, 2005
yum, yuck, some language learning
This is such a unique way to present the idea of foreign langauges to children. It isn't meant to make your children fluent, but just to show that people sounds like yum, yikes, yuck, and ah-choo aren't said the same way around the world. The illustrations are colorful and the foldout part lets you guess what the foreign words mean in English before you check for yourself. I highly recommend this ...
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L'Apprenti
Linda Sue Park
Flammarion, 2003
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Mung-Mung: A Fold-Out Book of Animal Sounds 2 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Charlesbridge Publishing, 2004
Spirited animals
These happy animals are a nice pairing with the fun that can be had making all of the animal sounds. A great read along.
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Seesaw Girl5 reviews
Linda Sue Park
Yearling, 2001
Not Just for Social Studies
An exquisitely written book. Jade Blossom is feisty enough for modern readers while still remaining true to her own time and culture. Linda Sue Park does a wonderful job of integrating little bits of 17th century Korea into the story unobtrusively, often using it to show Jade Blossom's personality. For example, there is a very brief section where the women of the household are doing the ...
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