One Houston One Book: The Name Jar Reading In-Person
Join The Mayor's Office for Adult Literacy for a "read-a-thon" model experience in celebration of One Houston, One Book - Diverse Stories for a Diverse City!
We invite you to read and discuss The Name Jar at the new Alief-David M. Henington Regional Library. The book is a heartwarming story about the new girl in school, and how she learns to appreciate her Korean name. Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what happens when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious about fitting in. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she decides to choose an American name from a glass jar.
One Houston, One Book is a citywide initiative promoting "Diverse Stories for a Diverse City."
- Date:
- Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Room 2003_Library
- Campus:
- Alief-David M. Henington Regional Library
- Age Group:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Arts & Culture Author Talks / Book Clubs One Houston One Book
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yangsook Choi grew up in Korea. She started drawing at age four and loved telling her grandma scary stories. After moving to New York to pursue her art, she wrote 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 Reading Association's Children's Book Award.
When she is not creating, she loves to spend time with children in her community and around the world. The local children in a shelter, the mountain children in the Himalayas, the Bedouin children in the Arabian desert, the orphans in flooded Cambodia, and the North Korean defector children are among her greatest teachers.