Image description front: Front cover shows a child in traditional Korean clothing holding flowers beneath a large glowing orange moon over a mountain landscape. 

Image description back: Back cover features a mountain landscape with text describing the story’s themes of childhood, heritage, family love, and the illustrator’s background. 

Back cover text: "When you look at the moon,
remember how much I love you!"
Appa told Kae Soon.
Sweet Potato Moon is based on Kae Soon Choi's childhood in 1930's Korea. Kae Soon experiences deep loneliness and repeated failure, but in the end, she makes a heart-warming discovery that redeems all of her mischief and mishaps. Korea's unique flavors and beauty are blended into a tender
and brilliantly illustrated book which transcends time, place, and culture. Nadia Ilchuk persevered through cold, dark, and dangerous days of the war in Ukraine to create illustrations that simultaneously reflect
Kae Soon's childhood and Nadia's courage, kindness, and love.