Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Ho Baek Lee
This is a bouncy, rhythmic, rhyming book about a mother and child going grocery shopping and then going home to cook bee-bim bop, a Korean dish. The Newbury award-winning author is Korean-American. The illustrator is South Korean.
Each page features watercolor illustrations and a rhyming stanza of a few lines describing the preparations:
“Hurry, Mama, hurry/Gotta chop chop chop!/Hungry-very hungry for some BEE-BIM BOP!”
On the final pages the family comes together at the dinner table: father, younger sibling, and and older woman who could be a grandmother. A bee-bim bop recipe is included at the end.
Charming.
Recommended age: 2-4
