Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy American city. The language is unfamiliar. Food, habits, games, and gestures are puzzling. They boy clings tightly to his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his way. How will he once again become the happy, confident kid he used to be? Walk in his shoes as he takes the first tentative steps toward discovering joy in his new world. After immigrating to the U.S., the young boy in this wordless text longs for his former home. With mouting frustration, he mopes indoors until his precious red seed, brought from his native country, falls out the window. Illustrations use flexible graphic novel panels, sometimes spilling onto strategic white space, and colors that aptly express the plot's emotional trajectory.-- "School Library Journal, "Status Conscious"" In this visually impactful wordless picture book, Kim tells the story of a young boy who immigrates with his family to a new country. Scared and uncomfortable, the child keeps a seed from his former homeland as solace in the midst of the unfamiliar surroundings, classmates, and language. When he loses it, the youngster goes out to explore and finds new wonders, from the neighborhood pretzel stand to making friends to discovering the rewards of planting old seeds in new soil.-- "School Library Journal, "An Expanded Cultural Diversity Booklist: SLJ Readers Re" This book with no words nevertheless captures what it's like to be an immigrant in the big city -- disorienting, unfamiliar, overwhelming, alienating, new. Though there's little in the way of text in this story about a boy and his family from an unnamed Asian country, there's plenty for readers to think and talk about. In the author's note, Kim shares her own immigration from Korea to Washington D.C.-- "Brightly, "15 Books for Kids About the Immigrant Experience in America"" This contemplative, wordless picture book depicts a young boy who has recently journeyed to America. Patterned illustrations that invite reflection show the boy's fear in a confusing new environment. After the boy accidentally drops a beloved seed from his homeland and a girl skips away with it, he's drawn out of his apartment building and becomes more at ease with his neighborhood.-- "Book Links, "Crossing Borders with Books"" When a boy and his family immigrate to New York City, he experiences confusion and loneliness until he braves the outside and discovers the wonders his new neighborhood has to offer. Sanchez's mixed-media artwork captures the range of emotions experienced in adjusting to a move.-- "Book Links, "More than Words"" Wordless and a graphic novel, this work's themes of change, acceptance, and friendship blend well together and are showcased by Sanchez's soft illustrations. . . .In addition to using the book in a unit or storytime on friends, it can easily be used to discuss empathy for second language learners or cultural tolerance.-- "School Library Journal, "Books About Friendship: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly ] J" ...a marvelous picture book, a motile encapsulation of the turbulent world of a child uprooted from a faraway land, the confusion and sadness of his strange new world. Strongly compelling with powerful and whimsical visuals, young readers will feel deeply for and celebrate with this child as he finds himself burgeoning like a seed upon this beautiful soil called America. A must 'read.' What a triumph.-- "Da Chen, New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Colors of the Mountain" A beautiful story about the challenges of moving to a new country, Sánchez's hectic style effectively captures the sometimes overwhelming nature of the immigrant experience. The book also deftly shows the young boy acclimating to his new surroundings, while also recognizing that his culture has something beautiful to offer this new home.-- "Huffington Post" A near-wordless and highly accessible portrait of migrant experience that cleverly contrasts an opening of bright, light-filled rural settings with a grey cityscape to reflect the anxiety and loneliness of the young migrant child in his unfamiliar new home. The setting is Asia/America but the story is universal; Kim includes an afterword that details her own experiences on migrating from Korea to the USA as a child in the 70s. Here I Am! is ideal for developing visual literacy skills and for use with mixed-ability groups and with EAL learners.-- "Amnesty International UK" A poetic look at the immigration experience. . . .the emotions that come through loud and clear are genuine for everyone. A book to provoke discussion or just quiet reflection about being an outsider.-- "Capitol Choices" Akin to The Arrival but in picture book form. Tells the story in pictures of a family newly immigrated to the United Sates and the challenges of starting a life in a new place.-- "Children's Literature @ NYPL blog" Experience a young boy's journe