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Written and illustrated for 5- to 7-year-olds, this book celebrates grandmas, superheroes without whom none of us would exist, and the cultural traditions they bear that unify and nourish families across space and time. The millennia-old Korean New Year's tradition exemplifies the universal importance of multi-generational family and of immigrant origins.

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Written and illustrated for 5- to 7-year-olds, this book celebrates grandmas, superheroes without whom none of us would exist, and the cultural traditions they bear that unify and nourish families across space and time. The millennia-old Korean New Year's tradition exemplifies the universal importance of multi-generational family and of immigrant origins.
Autorenporträt
Mary Chi-Whi Kim is a mother of two beautiful Afro-Asian children and a writer and educator who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Her essays, stories, and poems have featured in The New York Times Magazine, NPR's Snap Judgment, The Heartlands Today, Calliope, Calyx, Primavera, Many Mountains Moving, Margie, Women's Arts Quarterly, and Literary Mama. She won two poem commissions from the Multicultural Center of The Ohio State University from which she earned a BA and MA in English Literature. Also gaining an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University, she garnered publication for her poetry chapbook, Silken Purse, from Pudding House Press. Her multi-genre creative writing/self-help book dedicated to survivors of childhood sexual assault, Karma Suture, garnered an Honorable Mention in the Writers' Digest International Self-Published Books Contest. Committing two decades to the field of education, she has taught multicultural English literature and creative writing at the Seoul Language Institute, The Ohio State University, and Savannah College of Art and Design.¿¿