A wonderful story about family and how people can come together to help solve a problem. This is a great text to use when teaching young students how to identify problems and solutions within a story.

This was a really sweet story featuring a family business and three generations. The ending is maybe a wee bit unrealistic, but children will appreciate that it’s Mike, the boy, who figures out how to save his family’s food cart business.One thing I particularly like about this book is that it shows a Korean family looking like any other family. They live in contemporary America and look like it. Even the grandmother doesn’t wear traditional clothing which makes the family look like the Korean f...

A young boy's Korean grandmother comes to live with them in America.Mike's grandmother is always thinking and dreaming of her life back in Korea. Mike's family owns a food cart that they bring out and park at the corner of the park. They sell Bagels, OJ, Hot Dogs, chips, soda and pizza at their cart. Soon other carts come and sell the same kinds of things that Mike's family's cart sells. With too much competition they sell less food and wonder what they can keep their cart.One evening while cook...

A book about a Korean family who immigrated to the States. The story is from the boy's point of view and discusses the struggles they are going through as a family and with the business. He finds a way to help his family's business with the help of his grandmother by mixing his culture into it to create a unique, blooming business as well as helping the grandmother with her home sickness.

A good story about a young boy trying to help his family adjust to America. A good book to use when introducing culture.

Bulgogi. Bibimbap. Korean cooking kicks taste buds!

The main character in this story, Mike, gets really worried whenever he finds his grandmother reminiscing about her good memories of Korea. One day his grandmother insists that she will come with the family to help set up their food stand. However, the family is saddened when they see all the competition that has moved in near their food stand, and they notice that their business is slowly going down. It all changes when Mike suggests that they change up their menu a little; instead of serving h...

Another jewel to share one and all!

This is a great book because the main character notices that his grandmother is homesick. He goes out of his way to make his grandmother feel like she is home. It is a great book to show the students the importance of family. The students can write about a family member that does not live with them but visits them. The students will also learn words from a different language too.

Mike and his Korean-American family sell American food from a cart in the park but when other vendors set up carts with the same foods, grandmother decides to make some of her Korean favorites instead! Includes a glossary of Korean words & foods mentioned in the story.Read / supplemented our LA/GEO Korean unit with this and a few other similar picture books.

Summary:This book is about a boy called Mike and his parents who are from Korea but now live in the United States. One day the grandmother came to the US to live with them. She really misses Korea and is having a hard time getting used to live in another country. Mike’s parents have a food cart in the city, but suddenly they get more competition and loses costumers. Then Mike and her grandmother suggest a plan to help with the food cart business. They start to make Korean food to sell in the foo...

back of book has definition of korean words used in the book. book discusses different foods made in korea. book could be used for comparing foods in different countries.

Good book introducing the economic concept of competition. Multicultural with a Korean family. Hard Korean words to pronounce.

This is a very sweet story, told through the eyes of a boy, about settling in a new country, nostalgia for one's country of origin, innovating through one's own culture. The authors did a realistic job capturing the uncertainty in everyday life and feeling slim margins between success and failure in the immigrant experience. Also wonderful use of Korean food to weave the story.

Grandma has recently moved to the United States to live with Mike and his family. Mom and Dad work hard every day selling foods like pizza and bagels from their food cart. When other carts move in selling the same type of food, Grandma and Mike save the day by making Korean foods like chop chae, bulgogi, mandoo, jijim, and bibim bap. They rename their car the "Have a Good Day Cafe," and this coupled with the new menu results in lots of new business! The backmatter includes definitions of the Kor...

In this book, Mike's grandmother comes from Korea to live with Mike's family. Mike notices that his grandmother feels homesick and tries his best to comfort her. While reading this book, I noticed how the illustrations are well drawn so the children are able to read and follow along with the pictures if they cannot read well.It is also quite accurate with the plot and the characters in the story. This book also portrays the Korean lifestyle well (I am also Korean). It is not generalized and it p...

This book would be effective on at least two level. First, it would serve as a intro into the economic concept of supply and demand. Second, due to the fact that the story is about a Korean family, it would be a good multiculture book that talks about the culture of the people of Korea.

We've read this book several times. It's a lovely story, about recognising value of the elderly and their skills and knowledge, a family working together and how an immigrants life isn't easy. It has such a happy vibe and a happy ending.

Great book about a family coming together to make their business work.. Grandmother learns to love her new country.

I love this story about a Korean American family trying to make a living with a food cart, and how grandma from Korea makes it a success.