{{short description|South Korean Writer and Illustrator of Children's books}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{family name hatnote|Yoo||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc--> | name = Taeeun Yoo | children = | relatives = | partner = | spouse = | language = Korean, English | movement = | subject = | genre = Picture Books | ethnicity = | image = | occupation = Author, illustrator | birth_place = Seoul, South Korea | imagesize = | Notable wokrs = | awards = Ezra Jack Keats Book Award (2010) | website = {{URL|taeeunyoo.com/}} }}
'''Taeeun Yoo''' is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator who is active in the United States. Her first picture book, ''The Little Red Fish'', won the Society of Illustrators’ 2007 Founder's Award,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://www.taeeunyoo.com/about |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=Taeeun Yoo |language=en-US |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622054001/http://www.taeeunyoo.com/about |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''Only a Witch Can Fly'' (2009) was named a ''New York Times'' Best Picture Book<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2009 |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/20091108_best-illustrated_gg/list.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324022716/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/20091108_best-illustrated_gg/list.html |archive-date=24 March 2022 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> and won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 2010.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=2010 Ezra Jack Keats Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature to Be Presented to Author Tonya Hegamin and Illustrator Taeeun Yoo at NYPL Ceremony on April 28 |url=https://www.nypl.org/press/2010-ezra-jack-keats-awards-excellence-childrens-literature-be-presented-author-tonya-hegamin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709163324/https://www.nypl.org/press/2010-ezra-jack-keats-awards-excellence-childrens-literature-be-presented-author-tonya-hegamin |archive-date=9 July 2023 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=The New York Public Library |language=en}}</ref>
== Life == Yoo was born in Seoul, though later immigrated to the United States.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Yoo, Taeeun |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/yoo-taeeun |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=Encyclopedia.com |archive-date=9 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709175657/https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/yoo-taeeun |url-status=live }}</ref>
She studied oriental painting at Hongik University.<ref name=":3" /> After attended the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy,<ref name=":5" /> she became fascinated with illustration, later receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Saxon |first=Antonia |date=2014-05-15 |title=Q & A with Lauren Castillo |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/62297-q-a-with-lauren-castillo.html |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en |archive-date=26 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126155156/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/62297-q-a-with-lauren-castillo.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Influenced by etcher [http://www.brucewaldman.com/bio.html Bruce Waldman] during her graduate studies, Yoo worked on her first book,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Taeeun Yoo |url=http://www.taeeunyoo.com/ |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=Taeeun Yoo |language=en-US}}</ref> visited several publishers to show her work, and regularly sent out advertising cards.<ref name=":5" /> Thanks to such efforts, she was contacted by Dial Books for Young Readers after her graduation exhibition, and her thesis project, ''The Little Red Fish'', was published in the United States in 2007, a year after her graduation.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Taeeun Yoo |url=http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1825 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209033115/http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1825 |archive-date=9 February 2023 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast}}</ref>
== Career == Yoo's first picture book, ''The Little Red Fish'', was published in the United States and subsequently translated and published in South Korea, Australia, Japan, and Spain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=리브피아모바일 |url=https://m.libpia.com/book/detail?g_code=31802 |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=m.libpia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Yoo |first=Taeeun |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4202465 |title=The little red fish |date=2008 |publisher=Penguin Group (Australia) |isbn=978-0-670-07235-4 |location=Camberwell , Vic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Little Red Fish |url=https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-02-9780803731455 |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=紀伊國屋書店ウェブストア｜オンライン書店｜本、雑誌の通販、電子書籍ストア |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=El pez rojo (Spanish Edition) - Yoo, Taeeun: 9788415250043 - AbeBooks |url=https://www.abebooks.com/9788415250043/pez-rojo-Spanish-Edition-Yoo-8415250045/plp |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=www.abebooks.com |language=en}}</ref> The book received the 2007 Founder's Award from the American Society of Illustrators.<ref name=":0" /> In 2009, her picture book ''Only a Witch Can Fly'', with text by Alison McGee, was named a ''New York Times'' Best Picture Book of 2010,<ref name=":1" /> and won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for New Illustrator in 2010.<ref name=":2" /> Her 2015 book ''Strictly No Elephants'' has been translated into 13 languages and is heralded as a pitch-perfect book about inclusion.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mantchev |first=Lisa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3HJCgAAQBAJ |title=Strictly No Elephants |date=2015-10-27 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4814-1647-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Strictly-No-Elephants/Lisa-Mantchev/9781481416474 |title=Strictly No Elephants |date=2015-10-27 |isbn=978-1-4814-1647-4 |language=en}}</ref> ''Kitten and the Night Watchman'' was named a Best Picture Book of the Year by the ''Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews'', and ''Publishers Weekly''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Globe |first=The Boston |title=Best 2018 books for children |url=https://apps.bostonglobe.com/arts/graphics/2018/12/year-end-kids-books-2018 |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-11-19 |title=Best Picture Books of 2018 From Kirkus Reviews – Children's Book Council |url=https://www.cbcbooks.org/2018/11/19/best-picture-books-of-2018-from-kirkus-reviews/ |access-date=2023-07-25 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-26 |title=Publishers Weekly Best Children's and YA Books 2018 – Children's Book Council |url=https://www.cbcbooks.org/2018/10/26/publishers-weekly-best-childrens-and-ya-books-2018/ |access-date=2023-07-25 |language=en-US}}</ref> Other books she has written and illustrated include ''You Are a Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses'' and ''Love Makes a Garden Grow''.
== Style == Yoo uses a variety of techniques for her work. Her first picture book, ''The Little Red Fish'', was created using etching with aquatint. In ''The Little Red Fish'', only the red fish and the red covers of the book are hand-colored. By 2009, Yoo progressed to using linoleum block prints to print images on paper with ink, and then drawing on it with pencil. She sometimes uses Photoshop to adjust the colors when finishing up.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast » Blog Archive » Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Taeeun Yoo |url=http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1825 |access-date=2023-07-04 |archive-date=9 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209033115/http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1825 |url-status=live }}</ref> She created ''Kitten and the Night Watchman'' (2018) entirely digitally. For ''When the Storm Comes'' (2020), she manipulated block print textures digitally, and drew pencil and charcoal lines on separate sheets of paper, which she then combined in Photoshop.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ashman |first=Linda |date=2020-05-26 |title=Taeeun Yoo chats about WHEN THE STORM COMES (plus Giveaway!) |url=https://picturebookbuilders.com/2020/05/taeeun-yoo-chats-about-when-the-storm-comes-plus-giveaway/ |access-date=2023-07-04 |language=en-US |archive-date=17 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817122045/https://picturebookbuilders.com/2020/05/taeeun-yoo-chats-about-when-the-storm-comes-plus-giveaway/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Regarding such changes in technique, Yoo has said, "It all depends on what is most effective and what is most fun for me to work with."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Let's Talk Illustrators #88: Taeeun Yoo |url=http://www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2018/10/lets-talk-illustrators-88-taeeun-yoo.html |access-date=2023-07-04 |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131000828/http://www.letstalkpicturebooks.com/2018/10/lets-talk-illustrators-88-taeeun-yoo.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Awards and honors ==
=== Books written === ''The Little Red Fish'' won the 2007 Society of Illustrators' Founder's Award.<ref name=":0" />
=== Books illustrated === Two of the books Yoo illustrated are Junior Library Guild selections: ''Round'' (2017)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Round by Joyce Sidman |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780544387614J&name=Round |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Junior Library Guild |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001081705/https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9780544387614J&name=Round |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''Kitten and the Night Watchman'' (2019).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kitten and the Night Watchman by John Sullivan |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781481461917J&name=Kitten_and_the_Night_Watchman |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Junior Library Guild}}</ref> Two books have been included on ''CCBC Choices'' lists: ''Hands Say Love'' (2015)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Townsend |first1=Emily McKnight |url=https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/74176 |title=CCBC Choices 2015 |last2=Schliesman |first2=Megan |last3=Lindgren |first3=Merri V. |last4=Horning |first4=Kathleen T. |date=March 2015 |pages=59 |language=en |access-date=2023-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626104128/https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/74176 |archive-date=2023-06-26 |url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Round'' (2018).<ref name=":4" />
In 2008, ''Time'' included Shirin Bridges's ''The Umbrella Queen'' on their list of the top ten children's books of the year.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The Top 10 Everything of 2008 |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1855948,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191828/https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1855948,00.html |archive-date=2023-03-26 |access-date=2023-07-04 |magazine=TIME |language=en-us}}</ref> The following year, ''The New York Times'' named Alison McGhee's ''Only a Witch Can Fly'' one of the year's best children's books;<ref name=":1" /> Bank Street College of Education included it on their 2010 list.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Under Fives |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/bankstreet_web/media/filer_public/2011/08/05/2010under5.pdf |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Bank Street College of Education |archive-date=28 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128070754/https://s3.amazonaws.com/bankstreet_web/media/filer_public/2011/08/05/2010under5.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The same year, McGhee's ''So Many Days'' was a Kids' Indie Next List pick.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-02-10 |title=The Spring 2010 Children's Indie Next List |url=https://www.bookweb.org/news/spring-2010-childrens-indie-next-list |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628223040/https://www.bookweb.org/news/spring-2010-childrens-indie-next-list |archive-date=28 June 2022 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=American Booksellers Association}}</ref> In 2014, ''The New York Times'' named Polly Kanevsky's ''Here Is the Baby'' one of the top ten best illustrated children's books of the year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rhoades Ha |first=Danielle |date=2014-10-30 |title=The New York Times Book Review Reveals 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2014 |url=https://investors.nytco.com/news-and-events/press-releases/news-details/2014/The-New-York-Times-Book-Review-Reveals-10-Best-Illustrated-Childrens-Books-of-2014/default.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709163327/https://investors.nytco.com/news-and-events/press-releases/news-details/2014/The-New-York-Times-Book-Review-Reveals-10-Best-Illustrated-Childrens-Books-of-2014/default.aspx |archive-date=2023-07-09 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=The New York Times Company |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2014-10-31 |title=New York Times Best Illustrated Books of 2014 |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2376 |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=7 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107032909/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2376 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-10-30 |title=New York Times Best Illustrated Awards Announced |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/64565-new-york-times-best-illustrated-awards-announced.html |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=<nowiki>[Publishers Weekly]]</nowiki> |language=en |archive-date=28 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228055236/http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/64565-new-york-times-best-illustrated-awards-announced.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, ''Kirkus Reviews'' and ''School Library Journal'' named Joyce Sidman's ''Round'' one of the best picture books of the year.<ref name=":4" /> {| class="wikitable" |+Awards for Yoo's illustrations !Year !Title !Award !Result !Ref. |- |2007 |''The Little Red Fish'' |Society of Illustrators' Founder's Award |'''Winner''' |<ref name=":0" /> |- |2010 |''Only a Witch Can Fly'' by Alison McGhee |Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for Illustrator |'''Winner''' |<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-02-22 |title=Awards: Ezra Jack Keats Book Winners; Hayek Book Finalists |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3437 |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Shelf Awareness |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202115937/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3437 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |2016 |''Strictly No Elephants'' by Lisa Mantchev |Charlotte Huck Award |Honor |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charlotte Huck Award (Fiction for Children) |url=https://ncte.org/awards/ncte-childrens-book-awards/charlotte-huck-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206161420/https://ncte.org/awards/ncte-childrens-book-awards/charlotte-huck-award/ |archive-date=6 February 2023 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=National Council of Teachers of English |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |2018 |''Round'' by Joyce Sidman |Charlotte Zolotow Award |Commended |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schliesman |first=Megan |date=2018-01-10 |title=CCBlogC: Bao Phi Wins 2018 Charlotte Zolotow Award |url=http://ccblogc.blogspot.com/2018/01/bao-phi-wins-2018-charlotte-zolotow.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128091812/http://ccblogc.blogspot.com/2018/01/bao-phi-wins-2018-charlotte-zolotow.html |archive-date=28 January 2023 |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=CCBlogC}}</ref> |}
== Works ==
=== As author and illustrator === * ''The Little Red Fish'' (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2007, ISBN 978-0803731455) * ''You Are a Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses'' (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0399256028) * ''Love Makes a Garden Grow'' (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2023, ISBN 978-1534442863)
=== As illustrator ===
* ''A Wrinkle in Time Quintet'', written by Madeleine L’Engle (Square Fish, 2007) * ''The Umbrella Queen'', written by Shirin Bridges (Greenwillow Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0060750404) * ''Only a Witch Can Fly'', written by Alison McGhee (Feiwel & Friends, 2009, ISBN 978-0312375034) * ''So Many Days'', written by Alison McGhee (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010, ISBN 978-1416958574 ) * ''The Austin Family Chronicles'', written by Madeleine L’Engle (Square Fish, 2011) * ''Tua and the Elephant'', written by R. P. Harris (Chronicle Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1452127033) * ''Hands Say Love'', written by George Shannon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014, ISBN 978-0316084796) * ''Here Is the Baby'', written by Polly Kanevsky (Schwartz & Wade, 2014, ISBN 978-0375867316) * ''Strictly No Elephants'', written by Lisa Mantchev (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1481416474) * ''Round'', written by Joyce Sidman (Clarion Books, 2017, ISBN 978-0544387614) * ''Kitten and the Night Watchman'', written by John Sullivan (Simon & Schuster/Paula. Wiseman Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1534480421) * ''When the Storm Comes,'' written by Linda Ashman (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2020, ISBN 978-0399546099)
== References == <references />
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoo, Taeeun}} Category:South Korean women writers Category:South Korean children's book illustrators Category:South Korean women children's book illustrators Category:21st-century South Korean writers Category:21st-century South Korean women artists Category:South Korean children's writers Category:South Korean women children's writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:21st-century South Korean women writers