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Something for School

Hyun Young Lee

Picture Book

Ages 4 to 6

Kane/Miller, 2006, 978-1-933605-85-2

  Yoon is going to kindergarten for the first time and she is feeling nervous. She cannot even summon up a smile for her mother. Things only get worse when the teacher asks the girls to line up in one line and the boys to line up in another. With the exception of one boy, everyone thinks poor Yoon is a boy and she is soon in tears.

  When Yoon gets home she looks at herself in a mirror. Does she really look like a boy? Perhaps is she wears jewelry or hairclips the other children won’t think she is a boy. Finally she decides on a headband that has built in girly curls. “It’s perfect!” Yoon thinks and the next morning she sneaks out of the house wearing her sister’s headband.

  The first day of school is bad enough without people thinking that you are a boy when you in fact a girl. Thankfully the situation sorts itself out very quickly and soon Yoon has plenty of friends. Children who fear the worst will see, through Yoon’s experience, that things are rarely as bad as they seem. After all, if Yoon was able to work through her problems, surely anyone could.

  With cleverly executed and often very amusing illustrations to accompany the text, this South Korean author tells a story that children will have no difficulty identifying with.

 

 

 

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