She divides her time between New York and Seoul. She received an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. 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. When she is not creating, she loves to meet and play with children in her community and around the world.
Her books have been acclaimed as "Best of the Best" by the Chicago Public Library, included on the American Library Association Notable Book list, selected by PBS Reading Rainbow, and have received the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. After moving to New York to pursue her art, she has written and illustrated many books for young readers. She started drawing at age 4 and loved telling her grandma scary stories. 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 d Yangsook Choi grew up in Korea. Her classmates cant pronounce her name and some of the kids on the bus make fun of it, so she decides she needs an American name and her class starts her a name jar that they all put new name choices in for her.
Her books have been acclaimed as "Best of the Best" by the Chicago Public Library, included on the American Library Association Notable Book list, selected by PBS Reading Rainbow, and have received the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. The story is about Unhei who has just moved from Korea to America and she is very much missing home.
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