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Behind the Mask by Choi, Yangsook is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Behind the Mask about?

<p><P>Halloween is coming. &#8220;What are you going to be?&#8221; the children ask one another. Kimin says he will be his grandfather. &#8220;Going as an old man is not very scary,&#8221; they tease. What the children don&#8217;t know is that Kimin&#8217;s grandfather was a Korean mask dancer. And Kimin doesn&#8217;t know that the mask holds a secret for him.<p>With vibrant illustrations, Yangsook Choi joins Korean and American folk traditions in her story about a boy who finds a link to his grandfather, behind the mask.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Korean theater traditions meet American Halloween customs in Choi's (Peach Heaven) satisfying tale. When Kimin gets ready to choose a trick-or-treat costume, his mother brings him two red boxes from his late grandfather, "a famous dancer in Korea." Kimin feels ambivalent because his grandfather once startled him with a white-eyebrowed, white-bearded face. But inside the boxes, he finds family photos and the "gruesome" face-a stylized performance mask. This discovery transforms Kimin's negative memory and becomes a perfect Halloween outfit, although it gets a little scuffed. Choi's text-and-image layouts and cross-generational subjec

Who reads Behind the Mask?

Author

Choi, Yangsook

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374305222

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Mystery, Fiction

Rating

3.57 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14