Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!
No. of pages 40
This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 years.
There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Farrar Straus Giroux .
Hyewon Yum is the author and illustrator of Puddle ; The Twins' Little Sister ; Last Night , a Fiction Honorable Mention for the Bologna Ragazzi award and winner of the Golden Kite Award; There Are No Scary Wolves , winner of Society of Illustrators' Founder's Award; The Twins' Blanket , a Junior Library Guild selection; and Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten! , which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award and was selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. Hyewon's latest, A Piece of Home , written by Jeri Watts, received multiple starred reviews. Hyewon lives in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more at HyewonYum. com.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
This book was recognised in the New Illustrator category by the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award. The EJK Award is given annually to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. An Honor Books category was added in 2012. A distinguished selection committee of early childhood education specialists, librarians, illustrators and experts in childrens literature reviews the entries, seeking books that portray the universal qualities of childhood, a strong and supportive family, and the multicultural nature of our world. The EJK Award was co-presented by the New York Public Library from 1986 to 2011. Since 2012, the de Grummond Childrens Literature Collection has co-presented the award at the Childrens Book Festival, held in April at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg.To be eligible, writers and illustrators must have had no more than three books previously published.
Alabama Camellia Award
This book was recognised in the Grades K-1 category by the Alabama Camellia Award.