Monday, December 22, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Writing process blog tour
The author who tagged me is Abby Hanlon. who is my neighbor, and she has this wonderful book coming out in few days. It's called "Dory Fantasmagory". I haven't got my hands on the copy yet, but according to SLJ, it would be good. So that's on my 5 year old boy's next reading list.
And here's my 4 questions:
What am I working on?
I just finished the picture book called "PUDDLE"
How does my work differ from others of its genre?
It's always been my question , but I couldn't find my answer just yet.
Why do I write what I do?
I love to read stories, watch movies, and listen other people talking. I'm pretty content with being a good listener or good reader most of time, but sometimes you want to tell your stories. We all have some stories to tell, aren't we?
Unfortunately I am not a good talker, when I tell the stories, my words jumbled, I mumbled.
So this picture book form is just perfect form to tell my stories, I can mull it over as long as i want, if I couldn't find my words, I can just show you the picture!
How does my writing process work?
First, I have this idea. And I make up this story in my head and think about it for myself if it's good story or not. Usually for me it seems terrific at first. It seems most brilliant idea ever published.
And then, I tell this wonderful story to my kids all excited, but obviously they usually said "OK" playing Lego. Even my 10 year old boy know what "OK' really means.(!)
Then I questioned this story myself little disheartened.
But I start to write anyway, this time I drew this little boxes and draw tiny pictures in them(They call this thumbnails). It helps me to see the whole story line. There's whole bunch of doodles following. Sometimes it works, and then it become a book. But lot of times, it goes into the drawer.
When it looks like A book to me. I make it to a dummy and show this to my editor and my agent very nervously.
They are super kind, and encourage me to work on for little more something. And that little more something could be question like "How does my work differ from others of its genre?"(-yes, I told you it's the question I haven't find the answer yet). So it takes a little while to work on that.
I keep working to find the little more something.If it's very lucky, it become a book. Sometimes I never can work thing out. So I start with another idea, another seed all over again.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
review from BCCB
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Hornbook mentioned..
Monday, September 15, 2014
bccb review for twins' little sister
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
story time at the Greenlight Bookstore
http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/story-time-hyewon-yum
Friday, July 11, 2014
Starred review from PW!!
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
- C.S Lewis: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
Monday, June 9, 2014
Review from SLJ
The Twins’ Little Sister. illus. by Hyewon Yum. 40p. Farrar/Frances Foster Bks. Aug. 2014. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9780374379735. LC 2013013078.
PreS-Gr 1–The girls from The Twins’ Blanket (Farrar, 2011) are back and have something new to share—a baby sister! At first the twins aren’t so thrilled about the baby taking up all their mother’s time, but soon they realize that if they lend a hand, Mom will have more time to spend with them. They become so involved that they decide they need another baby! This semiautobiographical story puts a sweetly funny spin on the classic big sister plotline. The dual first-person narrative is comprised of dialogue, mostly between the twins as they sort out their feelings about their new sister. Once again, Yum shows a caring Asian family with the emphasis on the sibling relationship. Fans of the first book will be delighted that the blankets, along with the twins’ favorite colors, pink and yellow, make an appearance in the stylistic and painterly mixed-media illustrations. This book has broad appeal for big sisters- and brothers-to-be as well as for twins.–Amy Seto Musser, Denver Public Library
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Review from Horn book
The Twins’ Little Sister
by Hyewon Yum; illus. by the author
Preschool Foster/Farrar 40 pp.
8/14 978-0-374-37973-5 $16.99
Those strong-willed sisters from The Twins’ Blanket (rev. 9/11) are back, having successfully transitioned from one shared bed and blanket to two beds and two blankets (one yellow and one pink, reflecting each twin’s decided color preference). Ever competitive, however, they are now fighting over Mom’s attention: “When we take a nap in the big grown-up bed, I want Mom to look at me.” “No, look at me. She’s my Mom!” It’s a problem. And the situation just gets worse when, despite their objections, Mom brings home a new baby sister: “Now Mom’s grown-up bed doesn’t have room for either of us.” Yum is one of our least sentimental picture book creators: her twins are believably childlike in their directness (“The baby is red and ugly”; “She looks like the bread in a paper bag”) and their unshakable belief that the world revolves around them (“Mom has only two arms. Who’s going to hold the baby’s hand?”). Each step forward in accepting the baby has its source in a self-interested motive, but accept her they finally do—and the twist at the end is both funny and fitting. As in The Twins’ Blanket, the picture book format is used inventively, with the yellow-loving twin mostly on left-hand pages and the pink one on the right. The collage elements (Mom’s patterned dress, for instance, and baby’s pink-and-yellow blankie) add texture and interest to the gouache illustrations. This is a fresh take on both the sibling-rivalry and new-baby themes; the unremarked-upon absence of another parent makes this a refreshingly nonpointed single-parent story as well. martha v. parravano
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
First Review for THE TWINS" LITTLE SISTER
Author: Hyewon Yum
Illustrator: Hyewon Yum
Review Issue Date: June 15, 2014
Online Publish Date: June 4, 2014
Publisher:Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 40
Price ( Hardcover ): $17.99
Publication Date: August 5, 2014
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-374-37973-5
Category: Picture Books
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
์๋ฅ์ด๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ข์ (sisalive)
๋น๊ธ์ด ์์ ์์๋ด๋ ์๋ฅ์ด์ ์ด๋ถ ์๋
์ด๋๊ฐ์ ๋์ ๋๊ฐ์ ์ด๊ฐ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ. ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ณต์์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์๋ฅ์ด๊ฐ ์๋์ ์์ฌ์ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ฑ <์๋ฅ์ด๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ข์>๋ ์ด๋ถ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ๋ฑํ๋ ์๋ฅ์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค.
2014๋ 03์ 15์ผ (ํ ) 12:28:10 [339ํธ]
๊น์์ฑ (์ถ์ฒ๊ต๋ ๊ตญ์ด๊ต์ก๊ณผ ๊ต์)
http://m.sisainlive.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=19628
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ๋์ฒ์ ์ด๋ ๋ง์ ์ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์ง๊ตฌ ์ ๋ฐ๋ํธ์ ํ ์ง์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌํค๋ ๋ง์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์๋ฅดํจํฐ๋์๋๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฃจ๊ณผ์ด์๋๊ฐ? ๋๋ ์ด๋ฆ๋ ์์ํ ๊ทธ๊ณณ ์ด๋์ฏค์๋ ๋ถ๋ช ๋์ ๋ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ ์๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ํฐ ์ง๊ตฌ์ ์ฌ๋, ๋ช์ญ ์ต์ด๋ ๋๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ์ด์ฐ ๋์ ๋๊ฐ์ ์ด๊ฐ ์์ ์ ์์ผ๋ด. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ด๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ถ๋ช ๋์ฒ์ ์ฏค์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๋๊ตญ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ผ๋ฃฉ์ง ์ผ๊ตด์ ํ๊ณ , ๋๊ฐ์ด ์๋ง์๊ฒ ๋๋๋ก ๊พธ์ง๋์ ๋ฃ๊ณ , ๋๊ฐ์ด ์ธ๋ชจ์๋ ๊ณต์์ผ๋ก ๋๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ช ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ง๋์, ํ๋์ ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์์๋ณด๊ณ ์ง๋์จ ์ผ๋ค์ ์๊ธฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ด ๊ณต์์ ํ์ค ์์์ ๊ฒฝํํ๋ ์ด๋ค์ด ์์์ ์๊ฒ๋ ๋์๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ก ์๋ฅ์ด๋ค์ด๋ค. ํจ๊ป ์๋ง ๋ฑ์์์ ์๋ผ๊ณ , ๋น์ทํ ์ธ๋ชจ์ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก, ์ค๋ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ์ง์ผ๋ณธ ์ด๋ค๋ง ๊ทธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋ณํ ์ ์๋ ์๋ฅ์ด ๋ง์ด๋ค. ์ง๊ตฌ ๋์ฒ์ ์ด ์๋, ์ง๊ธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ด ๊ณ์์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํคํค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฅ์ด์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ ๋ง ๋์ ๋๊ฐ์ ์ด๊ฐ ์๋๊ฐ. ๋๋ ์๋ฅ์ด๊ฐ ์๋์ ์ค๋๋๋ก ์์ฌ์ํ๋ค.

<์๋ฅ์ด๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ข์> ์ผํ์ ๊ธ·๊ทธ๋ฆผ, ๋น๋ฃก์ ํด๋
์ผํ์์ด ์ฐ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ <์๋ฅ์ด๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ข์>๋ ์ด๋ฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค. ์๊ฐ ์์ ์ด ์ค์ ์๋ฅ์ด์๋ค๋ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์๊ธฐ์๊ธฐํ๊ณ ์์ฝฉ๋ฌ์ฝฉํ ์ผ๋ค์ด ๋ง์์๊น. ์ฑ ์์ ๋ด๊ฒจ ์๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ค์ ์ผ๋ง๋ ์์ํ ๊น. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐฉ, ๊ฐ์ ์ฅ๋๊ฐ, ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ถ ๋ฑ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๊ฐ์ด ๋๋๋ ์ด ์๋ฅ์ด์๊ฒ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ ์๊ฒจ๋๋ค. ์ฑํผ ์๋ผ ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ถ์ ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฎ์ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์๋ก ์๋ณดํ ์ ์์ด ์์น๋ค์น ๋คํฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฅด๋ ์ด ์๋ฅ์ด๋ค์ ์์์ง ์ด๋ถ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์ด์ผ ํ ๊น? ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ ์ด๋ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ง๋๋ ์๋ฐ์. ์ด์ ์๋ฅ์ด๋ค์ ๋ ธ๋์, ๋ถํ์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ถ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์๋ ๋ฎ์๋ ์๋์ด๋ถ๋ ์๋ก์ ์๋ก์ด ์ด๋ถ ํ ๊ทํ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง๋ค ์ฐจ์งํ๋ฉฐ.
์ค์ ์๋ฅ์ด์ธ ์๊ฐ, ๋ ๋ช ์ ํ์ ๋ฑ์ฅ์์ผ
๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ ํ๊ณ , ์ธ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ ์ง๊ฒฐ๋ ๋์๋ค๋ง์ ํํญ์ ๋ด์๋์ผ๋ก์จ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ ํ์ ๊ณผ ๋์์ ์ง์คํ๋๋ก ๋ง๋ ๋ค. ์ธ๋ฌผ์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ๊ฒ ์ธํ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ๋ถ ์ง์๋ค. ์ฌ์ธํ ์ธ๊ณฝ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๋ฌผ์ ํํํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ์ง์ด ๋จ์ ์๋ ์์กฐ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ์ฑ์์ ํตํด ๋ฐ๋ณต๊ณผ ๋ณ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ญ ์ง์ ์ด๋ค ์ ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋์ฑ์ด ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ฑ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊พผ, ๊ณง ์์ ์๋ ์์ฃผ ์์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ‘๋’๋ผ๊ณ ์ง์นญํ๋ค. “๋ ํ์ ๋ป์ด ๋์ ์์ ์ก์์ด”์ “๋๋ ์ธ๋ ์์ ๊ผญ ์ก์์ด”์ฒ๋ผ ๋ ํ์๊ฐ ํผ์นจ๋ฉด์ ๋๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ‘๋’๋ก ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์นญํ๋ฉฐ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋๋์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ์ ํ ๋ชจ์๋์ง ์๊ณ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์์ฒ๋ผ ์ด์ธ๋ ค ๊ธด ํผ์นจ๋ฉด ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ค์ธต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก, ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณ์ฃผํด ๋ณด์์ผ๋ก์จ ๊ธ๊ณผ ๊ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋์๋ฒ์ด ์ ๊ตํ๊ฒ ์ ์๋์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
๋ด๊ฐ ์ฌ์๊ฐ ์๋๊ณ ๋ด๊ฐ ์๋ฅ์ด๊ฐ ์๋์ ์๋ช ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋๋ ์ฌ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ ์๊ณ , ์๋ฅ์ด๋ ์ ์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฆ์ ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์๋ ์๋์ ์ธ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๊น. ๋ ํฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๋ค ์๋ฅ์ด์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ ์ ๋ฐํ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ ์๋๊น. ๊ฐ์ ๋ฏ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฏ ๊ฐ์. ์ด ์ฐจ์ด ์์ ๋์ง์ฑ์, ๋์ง์ฑ ์์ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ , ๋ณผ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ฑ ๋ค์ ์ผ๋จ ์ข์ ์ํ์ด ๋๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ์์กฐ๊ฑด์ ๊ฐ์ถ ๊ฒ์ ์๋๊น.