Bee-bim Bop
Author: Linda Sue Park
Illustrator: Ho Baek Lee
Copyright: 2005
Published by: Clarion Books
Number of Pages: 28
Genre: Picture Book-Multicultural
The librarian at the public library
helped me pick this book out. Once I
looked through the book, I thought it would be a good book to share with
children. This is a story about a little
girl that is cooking with her mother.
The book takes place in the kitchen with the mother and daughter cooking
together. The story is basically the
little girl helping her mom make some bee-bim bop. Bee-bim Bop is a like a fried rice dish. Bop means rice and Bee-bim means mixed
up. So basically it is mixed up
rice. The story takes you to the store
to buy the ingredients, cooking the meal and then setting the table for the
meal and finally enjoying the food.
The illustrations in this story are
rendered in watercolors. The illustrations
are created using a double page spread.
The illustrator uses whimsical drawing to illustrate this sweet
story. Even though this story is about a
mom and a daughter cooking together, the illustrator only shows the mom from
the shoulders down until the end of the book.
The text placement is informal.
The illustrations are great at depicting action. There is a great picture of the mom cutting
vegetables and the single drawing did a great job showing action.
This book would be great for ages 4 to
about 10. I would use this book in a
multicultural unit about Korea. The
illustrations depict some typical Korean dress.
This would be a great book to talk about families and how even though
people are from different cultures that families are very similar. I would use this book to prepare an actual
Bee-bim Bop with my class. This book is
also a great poetry book. I would point
out the rhyme and rhythm in this story as well. This book has won several awards and
honors. It has won New York Public Library,
100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, and Bank Street Best Children's Books of
the Year.
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