Here I Am

Patti Kim was born in Pusan, Korea, and immigrated to the United States on Christmas of 1974 with her mother, father, and older sister. At the age of five, she thought she was a writer and scribbled gibberish all over the pages of her mother's Korean-English dictionary and got in big trouble for it. Her scribbling eventually paid off. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She is the author of A CAB CALLED RELIABLE. She lives with her husband and two daughters who give her plenty to write about every day. This is her first children's book. Sonia Sánchez lives with her boyfriend and a sleepy-head cat in a blue house near the Mediterranean Sea. She paints with both traditional and digital brushes and likes a lot of texture in her work. She loves children's books and her favorite illustrators are Quentin Blake and Fiep Westendorp. Sonia studied illustration at Pau Gargallo's Arts and Design School of Badalona in Spain. Her illustrations have been published abroad in books, magazines, on graphic posters and textile designs for clothing.

How do you make a new country feel like home? An old keepsake..a new friend..and a little time. Walk in one boy's shoes as he takes the first tentative steps towards discovering the joys of his new world. At the beginning of this award winning beautifully illustrated picture book, the boy struggles with the unfamiliar. The signs confuse him. The tall buildings intimidate him. His new school makes him feel lost and alone. He finds comfort in a seed be brought from his homeland. It represents what he left behind and longs for. He clings to his seed, keeping it with him at all times. Until he loses it... With over 50 beautiful illustations this wordless picture book is the the IndieFab Book of the Year Gold Award Winner