The Way My Mother Says My Name: Mahbin: A Picture Book About a Biracial Boy, His Korean Mom, and the Name That Means Home
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The Way My Mother Says My Name: Mahbin: A Picture Book About a Biracial Boy, His Korean Mom, and the Name That Means Home
Sale price
$18.99
Regular price $22.99
Some names sound different in your mother's mouth.
Everyone says Marvin's name the right way. Only his mother — a Korean immigrant who crossed an ocean and left her whole family behind — says it her way: Mahbin. The day a boy laughs at how she says it is the day Marvin tells her to say it 'right'... and the day he learns why her way is the only version of his name that means home.
The Way My Mother Says My Name is an own-voices picture book for ages 5–8 about a Black and Korean boy, the two names he carries, and the fierce, quiet love of an immigrant mother. The lesson is never preached — it lands as feeling, on the last page.
A heartfelt gift for:
• mixed-race, biracial, and Blasian families
• Korean American and Black families
• military families (parents who met overseas)
• grandparents, teachers, and anyone raising a child between two worlds
A story about a name, a mother, and what it means to belong — exactly as you are.
Everyone says Marvin's name the right way. Only his mother — a Korean immigrant who crossed an ocean and left her whole family behind — says it her way: Mahbin. The day a boy laughs at how she says it is the day Marvin tells her to say it 'right'... and the day he learns why her way is the only version of his name that means home.
The Way My Mother Says My Name is an own-voices picture book for ages 5–8 about a Black and Korean boy, the two names he carries, and the fierce, quiet love of an immigrant mother. The lesson is never preached — it lands as feeling, on the last page.
A heartfelt gift for:
• mixed-race, biracial, and Blasian families
• Korean American and Black families
• military families (parents who met overseas)
• grandparents, teachers, and anyone raising a child between two worlds
A story about a name, a mother, and what it means to belong — exactly as you are.