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Bee-Bim Bop!
Bee-Bim Bop! | Linda Sue Park
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A wonderful paperback picture book about the joys of family and food, from Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park. Bee-bim bop ("mix-mix rice") is a traditional Korean dish. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells of helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and sitting down to enjoy a favorite meal. The enthusiasm of the narrartor is conveyed in the whimsical illustrations, which bring details from the artists childhood in Korea to his depiction of a modern Korean-American family. The book includes Linda Sues own bee-bim bop recipe!
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eraderneely
Bee-Bim Bop! | Linda Sue Park
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We woke up an hour and a half early in our house 😭 but at least we had a reading party! 🎉

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alanacristin
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Babe loved this bright and cheerful story about helping mom cook beebimbap. We're big fans of eating the hot stone version in Japan (ishiyaki bibinba) so I'll have to try the included recipe for a safer, at-home version. Slowly building a library of relevant books for our enthusiastic rice eater 🍚👶💕 #babyreads #Korean #food #picturebook

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RealLifeReading
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#booktober day 8: #diversereads
It is sadly easier to find picture books that feature animals than it is to find culturally diverse characters. Here are three picture books by Taiwanese-American author and illustrator Grace Lin and one by Korean-American Linda Sue Park. Some other great diverse picture books include Last Stop on Market Street, Cora Cooks Pancit, Goyangi Means Cat, I'm New Here, The Name Jar, Thunder Boy Jr.
What are your recs?

moranadatter This is my all time favorite picture book 7y
read_diverse_books It's so true that there are more picture books with animals than children of color. I hope it gets better over the years. 7y
Lindy There are some wonderful First Nations picture books, like 7y
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Larkken I love the idea of showcasing diverse foods in children's books, too, might help picky kids get interested in trying new things! 7y
JustTrish Actually any by Ezra Jack Keats ❤ 7y
angrylilasian I have never heard of the Cora Cooks Pancit book! Thanks! And now I have a craving for pancit. 😋 7y
angrylilasian I'm trying to get my hands on 7y
SusanInTiburon Oh we loved Bee-Bim Bop! And on the food theme, we always liked 7y
SusanInTiburon Another food-based book we read over and over is 7y
Ruri_kaichou The Name Jar is fantastic! 7y
BookInMyHands My other current favorite is Little You (American Indian). 7y
Abby-J One of the little dudes that I nanny for is an adopted Korean American child. For Christmas last year, I wanted to buy him a picture book with an Asian American main character. There are so very few books about Asian kids just being kids; it broke my heart. Every child should be able to his or herself in the pages of a picture book. Thank you very much for sharing these titles. 7y
AliBG KITCHEN DANCE is our fave pic book featuring POC, but also love CHARLIE PARKER PLAYED BE-BOP and AMAZING GRACE. 7y
RealLifeReading @kmdartist That sounds like a great picture book. I'll have to go see if I can find it 7y
RealLifeReading @read_diverse_books I think it's definitely improved in the past few years. I've been reading picture books to my older kid for five years now so I've seen some improvements! 7y
RealLifeReading @Lindy oh wow thank you so much for those book titles!! I have not seen any of these before and hopefully I can find them! 7y
RealLifeReading @angrylilasian funnily while I've lived most of my life in Southeast Asia I only heard of pancit after moving to California! Also thanks for the recs! They look like wonderful books! 7y
moranadatter @RealLifeReading It's so adorable and the author is an amazing storyteller. If she ever comes to a library or bookstore near you, go! 7y
GatheringBooks Cora Cooks Pancit is definitely one of my faves. 7y
moranadatter @RealLifeReading @read_diverse_books The CCBC keeps stats on this topic. Their blog post is worth reading if you haven't already; also click on the "recent essays" link and read the one from 2016 Choices; https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp I 7y
RealLifeReading @SusanInTiburon ok Char Siu Bao Boy sounds amazing! Plus my kids really love to eat charsiubao 7y
RealLifeReading @BookInMyHands that's a great cover! 7y
RealLifeReading @Abby-J you're welcome! And also check out everyone else's great suggestions! 7y
RealLifeReading @AliBG thanks! I've not read those yet with the kids! Will see if I can find fhem 7y
RealLifeReading @Larkken oh yes when my kids were babies they loved these board books that featured sushi and dim sum! And today at the bookstore I saw a board book about food trucks! 7y
Lindy @Abby-J A sweet one with a Japanese Canadian child is 7y
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