Guest Read Aloud with Yangsook Choi

Internationally acclaimed children’s author/illustrator Reads Aloud in our store!

You are invited to meet children’s author/illustrator Yangsook Choi at our Saturday morning Read Aloud! Yangsook has authored The Name Jar, A Letter to My Best Friend, and the newly released Slippery, Spicy, Tingly - all of which are available at HV Books for Humanity. Yangsook will read A Letter to My Best Friend at Saturday’s Read Aloud, followed by an artistic activity just for our young readers.

We hope to see you for this very special (and free) Saturday morning program. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

About Yangsook

Growing up in Korea, Yangsook began drawing at age four and delighted in telling her grandmother scary stories at night. After moving to New York to pursue her art, she has written and illustrated many books for young readers.

Her books have been acclaimed as a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, an American Library Association Notable Book, and with an International Literacy Association's Children's Book Award. She has also received 200+ rejection letters until she lost count.

Her past jobs include waiting tables at a smoky Korean BBQ restaurant, flying as a flight attendant, and drawing tiny pictures on fake nails.

When she is not creating, she delights in doodling alongside children from her community and across the globe. She has drawn with children in local shelters, mountain villages in the Himalayas, a Bedouin community in the Arabian desert, an underground shelter for North Korea refugee children in China, and an orphanage in Cambodia. She considers these children among her greatest teachers.