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Hyewon Yum
Hyewon Yum is the author and illustrator of several acclaimed books for children, including This Is Our House, The Twins' Blanket, There Are No Scary Wolves, and Last Night. Her book Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten! received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award. She lives in Brooklyn,... show more

Hyewon Yum is the author and illustrator of several acclaimed books for children, including This Is Our House, The Twins' Blanket, There Are No Scary Wolves, and Last Night. Her book Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten! received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. Visit her online at www.hyewonbook.com.
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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 5 years ago
The book does a great job of drawing the story into the picture the mother and son are drawing. The sparse dialogue moves the story along through the realistic portrayal of the mother and son’s relationship.
Joyia's Book Corner
Joyia's Book Corner rated it 7 years ago
this is our house is a story of a house that has seen three generations of one family. It is a sweet story that shows how similar parents' and children's experiences are. This book received a score of 3.3 on the Flesch-Kincaid reading scale, making it a good book for third grade or above. This would...
Peace, Love & Books
Peace, Love & Books rated it 11 years ago
Lovely generational family story about milestones and seasons that have been celebrated in the same home.
ereksonj
ereksonj rated it 11 years ago
I couldn't believe I was actually reading another book about the first day of school. This topic has become one of the standing jokes about how to get your bad picture book published. Can't give it a four, because it's about the first day of school, but I did like it. Noteworthy among books on this ...
Peace, Love & Books
Peace, Love & Books rated it 12 years ago
Cheerfully captures the excitement of a boy starting kindergarten.
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