Author:
Eve Bunting
Illustrator:
Chris Soentpiet
Gr K and up/Ages 5+
32 pages
picture book
11″X 10″
ISBN # 0-395-93872-4
$16.00 US
$23.00 CAN
Clarion Books imprint of:
Houghton Mifflin
215 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
(800) 225-3362
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
Jin Woo
David likes his family the way it has always been, just him and Mom and Dad. He never wanted to be a big brother. And he certainly never invited Jin Woo, the little baby from Korea, to become a part of the family. Now Jin Woo is getting all the attention, and David feels as if no one cares about him anymore. But then a surprising letter helps him to understand that being a brother can mean being surrounded with more love than ever.
MY THOUGHTS ON ILLUSTRATING “JIN WOO”:
I was honored when Eve Bunting chose me illustrate this story. Adoption has a special place in my heart as I was adopted just like Jin Woo. – Chris Soentpiet
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Eve Bunting has received many awards, including the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in 1976 for One More Flight (Warne). In 1995 the Caldecott Medal was presented to David Diaz for his illustrations for her Smoky Night (Harcourt). Ms. Bunting has taught several writing classes, including one at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives with her husband in Pasadena, California.
Eve Bunting and Chris Soentpiet bring the same deep emotion that distinguished their previous collaboration, SO FAR FROM THE SEA, to this moving story about an adoptive family that has love to spare.
Book Reviews:
“Soentpiet’s beautiful watercolor paintings show individual portraits lit up front the surrounding darkness. Booker dreams of light of literacy and the freedom it will bring. The story will hold kids and make them want to find out more about the person and the history.”
– BookList
“An evocative text and dramatic watercolor provide a stirring, fictionalized account of the early life of Booker T. Washington.”
– Horn Book
