
Shelley Hanmo

Tasha Jun
MARCH 23, 2025 — Bunmi Ishola, Senior Editor with the Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, has acquired two new children’s picture books for WaterBrook written by Tasha Jun, author of TELL ME THE DREAM AGAIN, with illustrations by paper cut collage artist Shelley Hanmo.
The first, YOU ARE A POEM, slated for publication in Spring 2027, offers an ode to every child’s ancestry, culture, ethnicity, and all the things that make them God’s masterpieces—or unique poems—based on a verse in Paul’s letter to Ephesians.
SOUP IS A LOVE LETTER is scheduled for Spring 2029, and centers on a Korean American girl who thinks about all the different ways we give and receive love after seeing a love note in a classmate’s lunch box.
The deal for world rights was brokered by Jevon Bolden at Embolden Media Group on behalf of the author and Marietta B. Zacker at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency on behalf of the illustrator.
WaterBrook is an imprint of the Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
Rights queries: Denise Cronin, decronin@penguinrandomhouse.
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