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How many of us as mothers tell our children regularly how wonderful and beautiful they are? I can’t remember a day that went by without me telling my own daughter that she was beautiful and precious to me every morning.
So you can imagine the heartbreak of my own mother, when I came home from school one day, crying, telling her to stop calling me beautiful because she was lying. I was ugly. All the kids at school told me I was ugly, and that I looked like a Chinaman with small eyes. My mom wept. I didn’t have the heart to tell her about all the times my lunch was thrown in the trash by my schoolmates. I would often hide in the corner to hurry and eat the bulgogi (Korean barbecue beef) sandwich she packed for me to avoid being teased for eating “something disgusting.”
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As she was writing her very first children’s book, Christine Paik was certain about one thing: the illustrations had to be done by her mother, Jung Lin Park. No exceptions.
Who else could capture the intricate details and emotional nuances in “The Girl in the Gold Dress,” a family-inspired intergenerational story?
“It was a make or break thing for me,” explained Paik. “Having my mom do the illustrating was part of the whole purpose of the book.”
The story is about Hannah, a 10-year-old girl who is embarrassed about doing a Korean dance performance at the talent show, especially because her friends are doing more conventional things like playing guitar and singing songs from “Frozen.”
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Some Eastlake High School seniors stepped foot on campus last weekend for the first time since the pandemic began more than a year ago to go to prom.
Girls in long, sparkling gowns and high heels and boys in suits all wearing masks got their temperature taken at the school gate, then walked down a red carpet under a tunnel of strung-up lights to a balloon arch to take their pictures.
Students danced to bumping music from a DJ in their outdoor amphitheater underneath flashing colored lights.
Christian Ramirez and Isabella Salcido pose for a photo with their iPhone at their senior prom held entirely outside at Eastlake High-School in Chula Vista on May 8, 2021.
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As she was writing her very first children’s book, Christine Paik was certain about one thing: the illustrations had to be done by her mother, Jung Lin Park. No exceptions.
Who else could capture the intricate details and emotional nuances in “The Girl in the Gold Dress,” a family-inspired intergenerational story?
“It was a make or break thing for me,” explained Paik. “Having my mom do the illustrating was part of the whole purpose of the book.”
The story is about Hannah, a 10-year-old girl who is embarrassed about doing a Korean dance performance at the talent show, especially because her friends are doing more conventional things like playing guitar and singing songs from “Frozen.”
/PRNewswire/ Author Christine Paik (https://www.christinepaik.com/) followed the late Ms. Cleary s advice, after wishing there were more Asian American.