Wish Soup - A Celebration of Seollal

Sohee helps her family prepare for the Lunar New Year celebration.

About the author

Junghwa Park is a Korean-born American immigrant and artist living in Jersey City, New Jersey. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration from School of Visual Arts in 2014 and was the Grand Prize Winner of SCBWI’s Winter 2020 Portfolio Showcase. She has collaborated with Pottery Barn, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Poetry Foundation and more. Junghwa’s published works include Pow! Kids’s While Grandpa Naps by Naomi Danis, which went on to appear in the New York Times; Korean publisher Who’s Got My Tail’s Bunnybee; and Putnam’s12 Days of Kindness by Irene Latham. Wish Soup is her North American author-illustrator debut. You can visit her at jungwhapark.com.
 

Summary

The North American author-illustrator picture book debut from Jungwha Park about the Korean celebration of Seollal, or Lunar New Year, and one eight-year-old's quest to eat enough bowls of rice cake soup to become a "big girl."

Foreword

The North American author-illustrator picture book debut from Jungwha Park about the Korean celebration of Seollal, or Lunar New Year, and one eight-year-old's quest to eat enough bowls of rice cake soup to become a "big girl."

Product details

• Authors: Junghwa Park
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2024
• EAN: 9780316457361
• ISBN: 978-0-316-45736-1
• No. of pages: 40
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 260 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Cooking & Food, Asia, JUVENILE FICTION / Cooking & Food, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Asia, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Family / Siblings, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Cooking and food, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: siblings, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / Asia