Hyewon Yum

Hyewon Yum is a South Korean author and illustrator of several books for children, including Last Night, There Are No Scary Wolves, The Twins' Blanket, and Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!. Yum has received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, a Charlotte Zolotow Award commendation, and other awards. Born and raised in South Korea, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Biography

Hyewon Yum she studied illustration at the SVA (School of Visual Art) in New York. She published her first original picture book Last Night in 2009, which was also her SVA graduation project. For Last Night, Yum won a Bologna Ragazzi Award Honorable Mention for Fiction and the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration.

After graduating from the undergraduate and graduate programs at Seoul National University, followed by her studies at SVA, she published Last Night in 2009, which was translated and published in Korean, French, and Portuguese, and its follow-up, There Are No Scary Wolves, which was the 2010 winner of the Society of Illustrators' Founder's Award. The Twins' Blanket, published in 2011, was selected as one of the School Library Journal's Best Picture Books, Best Children's Books of the Year and Best Children's Books for Family Literacy. Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten! received an Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award upon publication in 2013, Puddle won the APALA, and Saturday Is Swimming Day was named as a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book. She has collaborated with artists E. Lockhart and Avery Corman.

Activities

2012 In the Studio: An Exhibition Featuring Children's book Illustrations, Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival

Awards

2020 Golden Kite Award - Clever Little Witch
2019 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Ã¢ÂÂSaturday Is Swimming Day
2019 ALSC Notable Children's Books - Saturday Is Swimming Day
2017 CLEL Bell award - Puddle
2017 ALA Notable books Ã¢ÂÂ Puddle
2017 APALA Ã¢ÂÂ Puddle
2013 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator award - Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!
2012 Best Children's Books for Family Literacy - The Twins' Blanket
2012 Best Children's Books of the Year - The Twins' Blanket
2011 School Library Journal's Best Picture Books - The Twins' Blanket
2010 Winner of the Society of Illustrators' Founder's Award Ã¢ÂÂ There are No Scary Wolves
2009 Winner of the Golden Kite Award Ã¢ÂÂ Last Night
2009 Fiction Honorable Mention for the Bologna Ragazzi award Ã¢ÂÂ Last Night

Works

2022 Lion Needs a Shot (Harry N. Abrams)
2022 Korean edition (Changbi Publishers)
2021Grandpa Across the Ocean (Harry N. Abrams)
2020 Lion Needs a Haircut (Harry N. Abrams)
2022 Korean edition (Changbi Publishers)
2018 Saturday Is Swimming Day (Candlewick)
2018 Korean edition (Changbi Publishers)
2019 Japanese edition (Ã¥ÂÂÃ¦ÂÂÃ¦ÂÂÃ¨ÂÂ²Ã¥ÂÂ³Ã¦ÂÂ¸)
2016 Puddle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2016 Korean edition (Changbi Publishers)
2014 The Twins' Little Sister (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2016 Korean edition (Changbi Publishers)
2013 This Is Our House (Square Fish)
2015 Chinese edition (Beijing United Publishing)
2012 Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2012 Japanese edition (Transview)
2013 Korean edition (BIR Publishing)
2013 Spanish edition (La Brujita de Papel)
2015 Chinese edition (Beijing United Publishing)
2011 The Twins' Blanket (Square Fish)
2012 French edition (Albin Michel)
2012 Japanese edition (Transview)
2014 Korean edition (BIR Publishing)
2015 Chinese edition (Beijing United Publishing)
2010 There Are No Scary Wolves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2018 Chinese edition (Twenty First Century Publications)
2008 Last Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2011 Korean edition (BIR Publishing
2011 French edition (Albin Michel)
2011 Portuguese edition (Galera)

Collaborations