Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy American city in this dazzling wordless picture book. The language is unfamiliar. Food, habits, games, and gestures are puzzling. They boy clings tightly to his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his way. How will he once again become the happy, confident kid he used to be? Walk in his shoes as he takes the first tentative steps toward discovering joy in his new world. A poignant and affirming view of the immigrant experience.

Honors/ Awards for HERE I AM:
* Starred from KIRKUS and PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
* A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
* A Junior Library Guild selection
* Nominee for a 2014 Eisner Award in the category of Best Painter/Multimedia Artist for illustrator Sonia Sanchez (interior art)

About the Author

Patti Kim was born in Pusan, Korea, and immigrated to the United States on Christmas of 1974 with her mother, father, and older sister. At the age of five, she thought she was a writer and scribbled gibberish all over the pages of her mother's Korean-English dictionary and got in big trouble for it. Her scribbling eventually paid off. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She is the author of A CAB CALLED RELIABLE. She lives with her husband and two daughters who give her plenty to write about every day. This is her first children's book.

Illustrator SONIA S�NCHEZ paints with both traditional and digital brushes using layers of texture in her work to evoke emotion and movement. Her award-winning debut picture book HERE I AM (Capstone) received two starred reviews and was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award in the category of Best Painter interior art. She lives with her husband, son, and a sleepyhead cat in a blue house near the Mediterranean Sea.

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