Mommy's Hometown

By Hope Lim, Jaime Kim (illustrator),

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When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does?

This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A…

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1 author picked Mommy's Hometown as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sometimes I wish I could share certain places that I loved in my childhood with my kids, but those places have changed—the skating rink in the mall has closed, the firetruck I loved to climb in one of the town’s playgrounds has been replaced with a modern playset, the pond I used to love walking around is now surrounded by apartment complexes.

This story kind of captures this—a young boy goes to visit his mother’s hometown but it’s no longer exactly as she’s described it to him. One of the things I really appreciated about this book though is how…

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