Bee-bim bop is a traditional Korean dish of rice mixed with meat and vegetables. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and finally sitting down with her family to enjoy a favorite meal. The energy and enthusiasm of the young narrator are conveyed in the whimsical illustrations, which bring details from the artist’s childhood in Korea to his depiction of a modern Korean American family.

Related: Korea, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

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• ISBN: 9780618265114
• Author: Park, Linda Sue
• Illustrator: Lee, Ho Baek
• Published: 2005, Clarion Books
• Themes: Childhood, Cooking, Family, food, Mother
• Descriptors: Korea, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction
• No. of pages: 32