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.

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Biography

Hyewon Yum she studied illustration at the SVA 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 –Saturday Is Swimming Day
2019 ALSC Notable Children's Books - Saturday Is Swimming Day
2017 CLEL Bell award - Puddle
2017 ALA Notable books – Puddle
2017 APALA – 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 – There are No Scary Wolves
2009 Winner of the Golden Kite Award – Last Night
2009 Fiction Honorable Mention for the Bologna Ragazzi award – ''Last Night''

Works

2022 Lion Needs a Shot
* 2022 Korean edition 으르렁 소아과
2021Grandpa Across the Ocean
2020 Lion Needs a Haircut
* 2022 Korean edition 으르렁 이발소
2018 Saturday Is Swimming Day
* 2018 Korean edition 수영장 가는 날
* 2019 Japanese edition プールのひは、おなかいたいひ
2016 Puddle
* 2016 Korean edition 물웅덩이로 참방!
2014 The Twins' Little Sister
* 2016 Korean edition 우리는 쌍둥이 언니
2013 This Is Our House
* 2015 Chinese edition 这是我们的家
2012 Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!
* 2012 Japanese edition ふたごのもうふ
* 2013 Korean edition 야호! 오늘은 유치원 가는 날
* 2013 Spanish edition Mama Hoy Empiezo El Jardin De Infantes
* 2015 Chinese edition 妈妈，今天是我第一天上学！
2011 The Twins' Blanket
* 2012 French edition Bonne nuit, les jumelles!
* 2012 Japanese edition ふたごのもうふ
* 2014 Korean edition 쌍둥이는 너무 좋아
* 2015 Chinese edition 双胞胎的小被子
2010 There Are No Scary Wolves
* 2018 Chinese edition 门外没有大坏狼
2008 Last Night
* 2011 Korean edition 어젯밤에 뭐했니?
* 2011 Portuguese edition Boa-Noite

Collaborations

2024 Not perfect by Maya Myers and Hyewon Yum
2023 Night Song by Mk Smith Despres and Hyewon Yum
2023 Sometimes I Kaploom by Rachel Vail and Hyewon Yum
2023 Ode to a Bad Day by Chelsea Lin Wallace and Hyewon Yum
* 2023 Korean edition
2023 Where I Live: Poems About My Home, My Street, and My Town by Paul B. Janeczko and Hyewon Yum
2022 Sometimes I Grumblesquinch by Rachel Vail and Hyewon Yum
2022 Asian Adventures AZ Foods: Delicious Asian Foods From AZby Yobe Qiu and Cynthia Li
2022 Luli and the Language of Tea by Andrea Wang and Hyewon Yum
2021 Not Little by Maya Myers and Hyewon Yum
* 2023 Korean edition 작으면 뭐가 어때서
* 2023 Japanese edition おちびさんじゃないよ
2021 The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth by Bruce Handy and Hyewon Yum
* 2021 Spanish edition Felicidad de un perro con su pelota
* 2022 Korean edition 행복은 어디에나 있어
* 2023 Brazilian edition Livro A alegria de um cachorro com uma bola na boca
2021 I Am a Bird by Hope Lim and Hyewon Yum
2019 Clever Little Witch by Muon Thi Van and Hyewon Yum
2019 Bark in the Park!: Poems for Dog Lovers by Avery Corman and Hyewon Yum
* 2020 Korean edition 멍멍이는 멍멍이
2017 Someday, Narwhal by Lisa Mantchev and Hyewon Yum
2017 A Piece of Home by Jeri Watts and Hyewon Yum
2015 The Fun Book of Scary Stuff by Emily Jenkins and Hyewon Yum
* 2017 Korean edition 너무너무 무서울 때 읽는 책
* 2018 Chinese edition 装满可怕东西的有趣的书
2013 Hooray Parade by Barbara Joosse and Hyewon Yum