School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-The endearing heroine of My Name Is Yoon (Farrar, 2003) is learning about Santa Claus and the North Pole at school. She is captivated, but her parents insist that "-we are not a Christmas family. We are a Korean family." However, after Yoon points out that they are both American and Korean, her parents figure out a way to meld a Christmas tradition with their own New Year's celebration. Yoon's round and expressive face is depicted as captivated, joyous, and implacable by turns, and her holiday imaginings are rendered as sprightly, juggling Korean-looking elves and a surreal but childlike North Pole. Her parents are rather suddenly and easily convinced to let the tradition of Santa into their home, but children and parents alike will be charmed by Yoon's yearning and determination to experience a bit of Christmas magic.-Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
PW said in a starred review of My Name Is Yoon, "Yoon may be new to America, but her feelings as an outsider will be recognizable to all children." Here the heroine struggles with remaining true to her Korean traditions while embracing the ways of her new home in Yoon and the Christmas Mitten by Helen Recorvitis, illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
