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Birthday Soup by Grace Seo Chang (2024, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group

ISBN-100593621611

ISBN-139780593621615

eBay Product ID (ePID)3064617720

Product Key Features

Book TitleBirthday Soup

Number of Pages32 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHolidays & Celebrations / Birthdays, Cooking & Food, General, Family / Multigenerational

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes, Kim, Jaime

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorGrace Seo Chang

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length12.6 in

Item Width9.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2024-002574

Reviews"Chang insightfully conveys a child's experience of learning to take part in an established Korean custom, and steamy swirls throughout Kim's digital pink, purple, and yellow palette tie together generations strengthened by birthday soup." -- Publishers Weekly

Grade FromPreschool

Grade ToThird Grade

SynopsisA debut picture book that celebrates birthdays, family, and a time-honored Korean tradition, featuring art by New York Times bestselling illustrator Jaime Kim and a recipe from renowned chef and TV personality David Chang. Maia wakes up on her birthday to a delicious smell brewing in the kitchen. Her family is making Miyeok guk, one of her favorite foods! miyeok guk is seaweed soup that new moms eat after giving birth to help replenish nutrients, and many Koreans eat this same soup on their birthdays to honor their mothers, who gave life to them. This year, Maia gets to help prepare Birthday Soup by chopping ingredients, drying the seaweed, and then adding everything to the sizzling pot. Maia wants to share the miyeok guk that she made with all of her friends at her birthday party later in the day, but wonders if they'd rather have pizza and cupcakes instead. With a little encouragement from her umma, Maia blends the two cultures that she's a part of to create a new birthday tradition. Debut author Grace Chang and New York Times bestselling illustrator Jaime Kim team up to create a beautiful and vibrant story about how food and family recipes can connect us to our ancestral cultures, as well as ourselves. Birthday Soup includes a recipe for miyeok guk from Grace's husband, renowned restaurateur, chef, and television personality David Chang., A debut picture book that celebrates birthdays, family, and a time-honored Korean tradition, featuring art by New York Times bestselling illustrator Jaime Kim and a recipe from renowned chef and TV personality David Chang. Maia wakes up on her birthday to a delicious smell brewing in the kitchen. Her family is making Miyeok guk, one of her favorite foods! miyeok guk is seaweed soup that new moms eat after giving birth to help replenish nutrients, and many Koreans eat this same soup on their birthdays to honor their mothers, who gave life to them. This year, Maia gets to help prepare Birthday Soup by chopping ingredients, drying the seaweed, and then adding everything to the sizzling pot. Maia wants to share the miyeok guk that she made with all of her friends at her birthday party later in the day, but wonders if they'd rather have pizza and cupcakes instead. With a little encouragement from her umma, Maia blends the two cultures that she's a part of to create a new birthday tradition. Debut author Grace Chang and New York Times bestselling illustrator Jaime Kim team up to create a beautiful and vibrant story about how food and family recipes can connect us to our ancestral cultures, as well as ourselves. Birthday Soup includes a recipe for miyeok guk from Grace's husband, renownedrestaurateur, chef,and television personality David Chang.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.1.C4797Bi 2024