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HAE-RYONG
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This work is the fourth volume in the Kwon Jeongsaeng Literary Picture Book series. Tearfully beautiful are the warm familial love that remains steadfast despite the unfortunate circumstances of the characters and the spirit of sublime self-sacrifice. Newly published, the picture book Hae-ryong has been illustrated by painter Gim Se-hyeon, who for long has pondered intensely on storytelling and traditional Korean painting. Painstakingly created in a new style, the 50 illustrations will move readers even more deeply, too.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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MY SHADOW THE TOMBOY
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The protagonist, Sa-rang is a model student famous throughout her neighborhood. Tidy and precocious, she is praised everywhere she goes. However, the girl in fact is suffocated every day by the over one hundred rules devised by her mother and the tight schedule of shuttling from one afterschool private academy to another. One day, her shadow comes alive and starts to move on its own. In contrast to the well-behaved Sa-rang, Da-som, the shadow, is a tomboy who sings and dances as she pleases. Spending time with her shadow, the heroine engages in exciting activities hitherto unimagined including waking up early in the morning and dancing, making and giving chocolate cupcakes to her favorite friend, and skateboarding. In this work, through attractive personages and vivid incidents, writer Choe Yu-jin fascinatingly depicts the process through which Sa-rang, a model student, liberates herself from the framework of a “good girl” created by grownups and gradually finds her free and independent self. In the scene where the previously passive protagonist musters courage and shouts out her true feelings and thoughts, young readers will feel thrillingly liberated.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Fiction_Age 6-8
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RETRIEVE THE FORGOTTEN CODE: THE PRINCIPLES OF CODING IN A STORY
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Retrieve the Forgotten Code recounts what happens as In-o, a 12-year-old elementary school student, rescues Banya, an artificial intelligence robot, by chance and learns coding in order to retrieve the robot’s memory. In the process through which Banya’s mysterious identity is revealed after repeated reversals, readers naturally come to learn both the principles of coding and ways of creating computer programs on their own.
The programming languages featured in this book have been newly created by the author in order to facilitate youngsters’ understanding on the basis of actual languages that are widely used by programmers including C language, Java, and Python. Thanks to this language, which has been constructed in order to facilitate readers’ effective understanding of the basic concepts and principles of coding such as source codes, algorithms, and functions, readers will be able to analyze with ease the rules of any programming language they encounter in the future. Having worked for prestigious information technology (IT) companies for over ten years, the author made full use of his vivid experiences as a programmer in penning this book. The volume presents for each level questions that inevitably arise when one learns coding such as “What is common to thousands of programming languages?” “Which are good algorithms?” and “How can commands be given to computers more simply?” By resolving each of the situations presented by Banya together with In-o, readers will be rewarded with a sense of achievement in understanding the principles of coding on their own.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Non-fiction
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My Little Sister Is Bow-wow!
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Min-ji is often scolded by Mom because of her little sister Eun-ji. As a result, she wishes that she had a puppy instead of a younger sibling. Ignoring her mother’s admonition, “Don’t wake up your sister,” the protagonist plays a prank by drawing a puppy on her sleeping sibling’s face. Then Eun-ji disappears indeed and a puppy appears. Exquisite is the expression on the face of the girl, who seems about to shout, “She finally turned into a puppy!” in a gleeful voice after seeing the little canine nonchalantly seated on her sister’s blanket. Through lively imagination, an adorable fantasy unfolds within reality. Min-ji is often scolded by Mom because of her little sister Eun-ji. She wishes that she had a puppy instead of a troublesome sibling. One day, their mother goes out, asking the girl to take good care of her younger sister. After playing a prank by drawing a puppy on the face of the slumbering Eun-ji, Min-ji goes away for a moment. When she returns, gone is her sister, having been replaced by a puppy. The little canine then messes up the whole house, turning it upside down. Will the protagonist be able to take good care of her “doggy little sister”?
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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MUNGCHI AND MAN-DO
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A warm-hearted and delightful tale that cheers for animals’ and humans’ subsistence and lives Mr. Choe Man-do and his companion dog Mungchi are inseparable both at home and at his shop. Although the man thinks that he alone can communicate with the canine, his daughter A-yeong, too, seems to be able to connect with the animal. He unwillingly takes care of a family of pigeons that has nested on his rooftop due to A-yeong’s love of the birds. In addition, after being chased by a boar during a mountain hike with the family of his daughter’s friend, Man-do comes to ponder on the hardships faced by beasts that have been driven into a corner by humans. On the other hand, after turning into Mong-gu, a boy, Mungchi the dog appears at A-yeong’s school on a sports day and becomes a star. Man-do is happy because of Mungchi and his family.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Fiction_Age 10-13
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THE SOUND OF A GUITAR IN AN EMPTY FACTORY
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The motif of this book is the story of laborers dismissed by Cort Guitars (Cortek), a South Korean musical instrument manufacturer, who have struggled for ten years to regain their work. Writer Jeon Jin-gyeong set up a studio on the site of the company’s factory in Bupyeong/Incheon as a form of squatting and spent time with the firm’s workers there for ten months, from April 2012 to February 2013. She has written and illustrated this volume on the basis of that experience.
The Sound of a Guitar in an Empty Factory is a work that prompts even youngsters to ponder on the meanings of terms including “layoffs,” “unemployment,” “reinstatement struggles,” and “labor unions.” The book is expected to serve as an occasion for children to realize that such can apply to our own families and neighbors instead of existing simply in the news and to tak interest in social problems.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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ANIMALS TALK
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Learning about diverse signals exchanged by living beings “How do beings living in nature such as mountains, sea, and prairies talk to one another?”
Just as people communicate with one another through speech and behavior, other organisms that live in this world together with humans, too, engage in dialogue through various signals including smells, sounds, colors, gestures, and electricity. Thus exchanging signals, living beings protect their respective territories, mate, and forage for food. In other words, signals are very important means of communication for organisms living in nature. An intellectual picture book, Animals Talk allows readers to understand living beings’ “languages” and signal systems with ease by presenting the Organism Speech Interpreter, a machine devised by Oink-oink the master inventor. In order to find Mrs. Meow’s missing baby, the pig meets with diverse living beings and listens to their stories. Through this volume, youngsters will be able to learn about patterns on flowers that lure bees and butterflies, pheromones given off by ants, vibrations from moles that reverberate in caves, ripples created by water striders on the surface of water, sounds made underwater by fish, and meanings of signals hidden in birds’ chirping in a fascinating manner.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Non-fiction
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Nogak’s Rooftop Honeybees
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An ordinary office worker living in a city, Nogak learns that agriculture has been negatively affected by a decrease in the number of honeybees. He realizes that, no matter how diligently people cultivate kitchen gardens on weekend farms, plants will not bear fruit well if honeybees disappear and that it will be difficult for humans to live if and when produce is gone. This is a non-fiction picture book recounting how, after pondering on the issue, Nogak quit his company and became an urban beekeeper teaching many people to raise bees in cities. As such, the volume will prompt young readers to realize how much meaningful change the modest choices of ordinary people can bring to society and give them the strength and courage to challenge, dream, and imagine without reservation. As beautiful scenes ranging from the urban forest of jam-packed high-rises to an apiary in the mountain thick with peach blossoms to the majestic sight of thousands of honeybees coming out of honeycombs and swarming vividly unfold, information that will whet youngsters’ curiosity such as the characteristics of honeybees and methods for raising these insects, too, is amply provided, thus adding to the joy of reading. Impressive is the protagonist’s efforts to resolve our problems today on his own without shifting them to future generations.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books > Children, Changbi Books > Children > Picture book, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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The Moon over the Apple Orchard
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The picture book The Moon over the Apple Orchard depicts in beautiful and lyrical brush strokes the literary world of the late Kwon Jeongsaeng, who believed that the humblest beings were the noblest. The third volume in Changbi’s “Kwon Jeongsaeng Literary Picture Book Series” series, this work recreates into a picture book the title story of The Moon over the Apple Orchard, which is a collection of the author’s short tales for children originally published in 1978. Presenting Pil-jun and his mother, who lead lives of goodness without blaming anyone despite illness and poverty, this book speaks about hope and joy that shine bright, like the moon, even amidst a sorrowful reality. Newly interpreting the tale with a focus on conveying consolation to the protagonist’s mother as both a mother and a woman, painter Yun Mi-suk’s illustrations make the story all the more moving. Together with his mother, Pil-jun lives in poverty as the caretaker of a riverside orchard. His mother is a “half-witted” elderly woman. She cannot even sew buttons on clothes, plays house with a pillow on her back, and importunes her son for meat dishes and outings to the traditional market. Her only son, Pil-jun had to withdraw from school and to be provided with meals at neighbors’ homes due to her illness. Though he has worked as a farmhand since the age of twelve, he has been unable to own even a modest house. Although mocked for having failed to find a bride, the protagonist, nearly 40 years old now, neither blames his sick mother nor resents his circumstances. On the contrary, he is incomparably happy because he can live with his mother, small, shabby, and solitary though their home may be. In this respect, Pil-jun is reminiscent of the author himself, who did not despair in spite of the hardships of his life but, instead, spoke of humanity and hope. As such, The Moon over the Apple Orchard is a work that sings of bright hope, joy, and beauty even in a painful reality checkered by war, poverty, and disease.
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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The Backbone of the Sports Field
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This volume collects seven stories that turn ordinary daily life into a mystery through marvelous incidents where the sports field at school suddenly turns into a giant one day, household objects transform into animals each night, and the family dog changes into a human being. Solid is the author’s capacity for portraying serious themes in a refreshingly novel and unprecedented manner. After reading these tales, readers will look at familiar sights from a new perspective. 『The Backbone of the Sports Field』: For fun, Eun-ju and her friend dig up the sports field and look for “treasures.” One day, however, the sports field starts to tremble as if there were an earthquake. 『A Kit for Growing Dong-sik』: Dong-sik is a genetically modified companion animal. However, due to insufficient money for feed, the beast is fed unsafe foods. Afterwards, it begins to grow in odd ways. 『Today’s Good Fortune』: While looking for an out-of-the-way restaurant, Min-ji’s family loses the way, only to arrive at strange ruins and to have an extraordinary experience. Will the family be able to reach the restaurant as planned? 『Something Even Better than Lulu』: Entrusted by his mother with money for the family dog’s medical treatment, Hyeon-u ends up spending the hospital fee on a toy robot and even loses the canine. Belatedly realizing his mistake, the boy goes on a search for the dog. 『Good Job, Elephant! 』: When Su-min’s family is asleep at night, animals living in the household appliances jump out. Why have these creatures come out? 『The Fist King』: Gi-cheol takes pains to invite his friends to a party that will be held at his church. This is because the person to invite the most friends will receive an iPad as a prize. Will the boy succeed in his mission? 『What Happened on the Last Night of ‘Honesty Camp』: One by one, animals participating in “Honesty Camp” each reveal secrets. What kinds of secrets would these beasts have been hiding?
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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Fiction_Age 10-13