(2) PS Illustrated by Joung Un Kim & Joung Un Kim. Sumi has only just learned her first English words this morning ("Hello, what is your name?" and "My name is Sumi"). But thanks to a nice teacher, Sumi begins to negotiate her new environment. With a gentle but realistic hand, Pak takes Sumi on her first steps from understandable trepidation toward a sense of ease in this new place. Illustrator Kim depicts Sumi in large, soft-edged swatches of confidently bright colors.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2003

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Marcelino Truong. As a girl and her father make a garden, he presents it as a metaphor for their life: like a seed blown by the wind, they had to fly far to find a safe place to "grow into our family." Scenes of the garden, in a European village rendered in an Impressionist palette, alternate with those in somber hues depicting the family's journey from their homeland. Both the lyrical language and the parent-child interaction are gentle and reassuring.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung. When Juno receives a letter in Korean from his grandmother, he knows from the enclosed photograph and dried flower that she has a new cat and a bright garden. The two communicate easily without a common language through pictures and enclosed items in their letters. The muted colors of Hartung's illustrations create a cozy atmosphere for Pak's affecting story.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley