Hyewon Yum
Hyewon Yum is an author and illustrator of many picture books, including Toto, A Spoonful of the Sea,Grandpa Across the Ocean, The Twins’ Blanket. Her book, Saturday is Swimming Day, is named as a Charlotte Zolotow Award honor, and Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten! received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award. She also illustrated Ode to a Bad Day, Not Perfect, Luli and the Language of Tea, and many more. “Ode to a Bad Day” was honored with the prestigious Boston Globe Horn Book Award. She was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea. Now she lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.
