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From: Judy O'Malley /General Pub. 4th Floor <jomalley>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 11:22:44 EST
I'm so pleased you brought Yumi Heo's picture-book work into this discussion, Megan, as I think her books, perhaps One Afternoon in particular, blend text and illustration in a symbiosis that bounces with child-like energy and fresh looks at familiar scenes. Words become pictures and pictures words in the minimal text of this book.
Yumi Heo spoke during the ALSC Preconference on "Connectivity: Kids, Books, and the Electronic World" at the ALA conference in New York last month and explained, while showing slides of her work, how she feels that both her childhood memories of Korea and her experiences living in a suburb of New York City blend in and inform her picture books. I think this quality in her work of being both universal in their appeal to children and particular in reflecting her culture contributes to the sense of vitality in her picture books.
Her new book, The Green Frogs, her own retelling of a Korean tale of misbehaving frogs, incorporates both subtle, delicate motifs of Korean art and exuberant humor.
Judy O'Malley Associate Editor H.W. Wilson Company
Received on Tue 13 Aug 1996 11:22:44 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 11:22:44 EST
I'm so pleased you brought Yumi Heo's picture-book work into this discussion, Megan, as I think her books, perhaps One Afternoon in particular, blend text and illustration in a symbiosis that bounces with child-like energy and fresh looks at familiar scenes. Words become pictures and pictures words in the minimal text of this book.
Yumi Heo spoke during the ALSC Preconference on "Connectivity: Kids, Books, and the Electronic World" at the ALA conference in New York last month and explained, while showing slides of her work, how she feels that both her childhood memories of Korea and her experiences living in a suburb of New York City blend in and inform her picture books. I think this quality in her work of being both universal in their appeal to children and particular in reflecting her culture contributes to the sense of vitality in her picture books.
Her new book, The Green Frogs, her own retelling of a Korean tale of misbehaving frogs, incorporates both subtle, delicate motifs of Korean art and exuberant humor.
Judy O'Malley Associate Editor H.W. Wilson Company
Received on Tue 13 Aug 1996 11:22:44 AM CDT
