A wonderful story about the joys of family and food, fromNewberry Award-winning author Linda Sue Park. Bee-bim bop ("mix-mixrice") is a traditional Korea dish. In bouncy rhyming text, ahungary child tells of helping her mother make bee-bim bops:shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and sittingdown to enjoy a favorite meal. The enthusiasm of the narrator isconveyed in the whimsical illustrations, which brings details fromthe artist's childhood in Korea to his depiction of a modern KoreanAmerican family, The book includes Linda Sue's own bee-bim boprecipe!

Linda Sue Park won the Newbery Medal for A Single Shard.She has written many other novels, several picture books, and mostrecently a book of poetry:Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo(Poems). She graduated from Stanford University with a degreein English. She lives in Rochester, New York, with her family, andis now a devoted fan of the New York Mets.Ho Baek Lee was born inSeoul, South Korea, and studied graphic design and communications.After spending time in Paris, he returned to Korea and he now livesin Seoul with his family.~