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Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds
At a busy street market, kids eating ice cream exclaim, "Yum!" in English, "Geshmak!" in Yiddish, and "Nam-nam!" in Danish. But disaster strikes when a little dog overturns a spice cart, showering pepper on everyone's ice cream. Will the kids end up crying, "Hai hai," or cheering, "¡Yupi!"? Energetic art and a lift-the-flap feature make exploring languages fun.
36 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
About the author
Linda Sue Park
74 books1,212 followersLinda Sue Park is a Korean American author of children's fiction. Park published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. To date, she has written six children’s novels and five picture books for younger readers. Park’s work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard.
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December 2, 2017
This book is about the sound people make to put sounds to their senses. It shows that while we may have the same sense of smell or taste, different people make different sounds to express that. What I rally like about it is that the illustration tell a little story that pull all the sounds and senses together. Very clever.
June 15, 2011
Not a great book for story time, the illustrations are not as clear before you open up the flap but it would be a great interactive book if the kids know different languages. It has many different languages telling the reader about an expression. What is behind the flap is the English word.
September 29, 2011
This multicultural book is filled with sounds people make to express themselves. It was fun to read the various languages and dialects. It makes a great read-aloud and the illustrations fold out to show detailed pictures of what is happening in the story.
March 27, 2016
Provides readers an experience of how sounds are expressed in different languages. Ha-ha! in English is the sound of laughter. In Arabic it is Keh-Keh-Keh! Huh-Huh! in Chinese, and Hee-hee-hee! in Korean.... Explore the world of sound around you!
May 21, 2016
Experience the sounds of different languages with this educational foldout book. The sounds are noted with the English version inside the fold. Wonderful book but I didn't really know how to pronounce the foreign words.
December 19, 2016
Read during first grade class visit on 2/22/13: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
May 31, 2016
This is a neat and needed little book. We say Yuck, but Russians say Foo. Even sounds are different in other cultures. A great sounding book for any age.
September 8, 2024
I really like this concept! 4 "crayon-shaded" frames on each two-page spread show children from around the world reacting to...something. The discerning reader must guess the sentiment based on facial expressions. Under the flap (in my version of the book, on the next page...) the English version of the emotion is written and showed in a broad scene. I like that so many different cultures and languages are represented in this book. I must say, I wasn't 100% sure about sentiment myself on my first read. And I was also curious whether the book covers the "6 basic emotions," happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, surprise. It covers two of those: sadness, disgust, and surprise. The others are yum (maybe happiness), sneezing, and "wow" (maybe surprise again). To be fair, new studies identify 27 emotions...too many for a board book!
September 22, 2020
Star rating:5
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Genre: Concept book
Themes: languages, diversity, multiculturalism, social cues
Bravo! This book is brilliant! The illustrations are colorful and so beneficial when teaching social cues and multiple languages. I love the way the book is organized as well... all the different languages for a word are shown and then you turn the page to reveal the English word. I could actually see myself using this book in a social/emotional class/lesson. I would focus on the facial expressions to help students try to figure out the emotion that is being expressed.
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Genre: Concept book
Themes: languages, diversity, multiculturalism, social cues
Bravo! This book is brilliant! The illustrations are colorful and so beneficial when teaching social cues and multiple languages. I love the way the book is organized as well... all the different languages for a word are shown and then you turn the page to reveal the English word. I could actually see myself using this book in a social/emotional class/lesson. I would focus on the facial expressions to help students try to figure out the emotion that is being expressed.
September 23, 2020
Published 2005
10/10. I absolutely adore this book! I found it so fun that there is a book that incorporates sound words in multiple languages, the exposure will help create a new sense of normacy within our English centered country. I will keep a copy in my classroom, I want my students to hear all of the different ways people express themselves in different languages and cultures and allow my non-native English students to feel comfortable using their home language to make sounds in my classroom without judgment.
10/10. I absolutely adore this book! I found it so fun that there is a book that incorporates sound words in multiple languages, the exposure will help create a new sense of normacy within our English centered country. I will keep a copy in my classroom, I want my students to hear all of the different ways people express themselves in different languages and cultures and allow my non-native English students to feel comfortable using their home language to make sounds in my classroom without judgment.
September 22, 2020
Copyright 2005
Concept
Theme: There are many ways of expressing your reactions or thoughts in different languages.
My favorite parts of this book was when the author would first have children that spoke different languages express their reaction towards something and then translate it into English; for an English speaker to learn and understand the different ways people talk. In my future classroom, I will use this book to introduce children to diversity within their classroom and community.
Concept
Theme: There are many ways of expressing your reactions or thoughts in different languages.
My favorite parts of this book was when the author would first have children that spoke different languages express their reaction towards something and then translate it into English; for an English speaker to learn and understand the different ways people talk. In my future classroom, I will use this book to introduce children to diversity within their classroom and community.
September 21, 2020
Copyright Date: 2005
Genre: Concept
Theme: Sounds, Languages, Culture
My favorite part of this book is learning about the sounds of all the different languages. It is really interesting to learn about words and sounds in other languages. This is a great books to read to children who are interested in other cultures. Children are able to learn sounds from all over the world!
Genre: Concept
Theme: Sounds, Languages, Culture
My favorite part of this book is learning about the sounds of all the different languages. It is really interesting to learn about words and sounds in other languages. This is a great books to read to children who are interested in other cultures. Children are able to learn sounds from all over the world!
March 24, 2022
Everyone's out and about at the market. The children experience emotions collectively and say them in their respective languages. It took me about halfway through the book to understand that all the children are expressing the same thing. I think a picture book version would be better because the children's facial expressions would be bigger.
September 18, 2024
A delightful book that shares the way some exclamations are said in different languages - phonetically translated so the English reader can pronounce them close to correctly. The illustrations are fun. And there is a little story told through these words: yum, ha-ha, yikes, ah-choo, yuck, boo-hoo, wow, hurray. Fun fold out pages, too.
September 23, 2020
I love this book!!! This book shows of many different languages and how they pronounce sounds even though it’s using a phonetic translation. I think it’s a great way to introduces and teach kids about different languages.
September 24, 2020
I really like this book! I love how easily things are phonetically spelled, it helps students to really pronounce these words in a different language! A wonderful book that introduces a familiarizes cultures from around the world.
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September 25, 2020I definitely missed a lot having to read this as an ebook rather than in the way it's meant to be read, but I loved it, so I can only imagine the reading experience is even better in its original form.
September 28, 2020
Copyright, 2005.
This is a multicultural, concept book. I really enjoyed this book and it’s fun and colorful illustrations. This would be a great book to add to my classroom collection. It can help teach students about sounds from different cultures and languages. Overall, a great book!
This is a multicultural, concept book. I really enjoyed this book and it’s fun and colorful illustrations. This would be a great book to add to my classroom collection. It can help teach students about sounds from different cultures and languages. Overall, a great book!
October 3, 2020
Published: 2005
Themes: Language exploration
My favorite part was reading all of the different ways to say "Yikes!" and seeing the dog knowing over all of the spices! This book is a great way to highlight different languages in the classroom and explore different ways to say similar things.
Themes: Language exploration
My favorite part was reading all of the different ways to say "Yikes!" and seeing the dog knowing over all of the spices! This book is a great way to highlight different languages in the classroom and explore different ways to say similar things.
March 5, 2021
I am a lover of language and this book is such a FUN introduction to languages and gives a great introduction to a larger worldview especially for kids in America that might never visit another country! I highly recommend this book!
March 18, 2022
Cute illustrations and story. Definitely defaults to the assumption that the reader reads/speaks English since that's the last language shown for each spread, making the assumption that interprets what the other words mean. Good visual clues in the illustrations as well.
April 22, 2022
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Age: 1-3
This book is a great book to read to children because of it's language diversity and different opinions. It teaches kids that other children may share the same likes or dislikes as they do.
Age: 1-3
This book is a great book to read to children because of it's language diversity and different opinions. It teaches kids that other children may share the same likes or dislikes as they do.
September 22, 2020
Copyright 2005. Genre Concept. I love all the use of home language(s) in this book. In my classroom I would use this book to promote inclusion.
September 23, 2020
A fun concept book that teach kids about all the different sound people make all over the world. It was fun to see how people such yuck in so many different ways!
October 7, 2020
Such a fun book! Super neat to see other languages and countries represented as well.
November 15, 2021
So fun. Can't wait for the board book version.
March 26, 2022
About 5sounds we make, but each is in 5 different languages
May 5, 2025
Bah-bah!
October 5, 2020
Star rating: 5
Copyright: 2005
Genre: Concept - book
Theme(s): Identity; culture; language
I loved how the illustrations help you understand the book even if the reader does not understand the translated sounds from different languages. I would use this is my future classroom to talk about the differences we can see cultures might have even though they might be expressing the same things.
Copyright: 2005
Genre: Concept - book
Theme(s): Identity; culture; language
I loved how the illustrations help you understand the book even if the reader does not understand the translated sounds from different languages. I would use this is my future classroom to talk about the differences we can see cultures might have even though they might be expressing the same things.
November 1, 2020
Copyright, 2005.
Themes: Multicultural, sounds, language
Genre: Concept Book
I absolutely loved the illustrations in this book and how the facial expressions were drawn, they made it fairly intuitive to what the word may be in English. Another thing I loved about this book was that it expressed sounds in a variety of different languages and then it said the sound in English right after so you could make the full connection. I could see myself using this in my classroom in a unit about different cultures and languages and how even simple people sounds do not sound the same in every language, we are all different.
Themes: Multicultural, sounds, language
Genre: Concept Book
I absolutely loved the illustrations in this book and how the facial expressions were drawn, they made it fairly intuitive to what the word may be in English. Another thing I loved about this book was that it expressed sounds in a variety of different languages and then it said the sound in English right after so you could make the full connection. I could see myself using this in my classroom in a unit about different cultures and languages and how even simple people sounds do not sound the same in every language, we are all different.
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