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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_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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Touch the Season
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Cultivating artistic sensibilities through art play This is an art play book that encourages children to create unique artworks of their own. From flower petal crowns made on spring days to Christmas trees, this volume includes 20 types of art play through which youngsters can express their artistic sensibility while feeling spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Discarded objects such as newspapers, boxes, and egg cartons are reborn as artworks through bright ideas and imagination, and the process of creating works by cutting, tearing, and gluing these materials with hands will help children to open up their senses and to express their thoughts and feelings freely. As such, this book will aid youngsters to develop their senses and to depict their experiences richly through creative art play.
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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Non-fiction
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I Don’t Know. I Just…
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This book realistically portrays the frustration and anger experienced by children due to grownups who scold them repeatedly without even knowing the circumstances. By vividly portraying the process through which the young protagonist makes decisions on his own, undoes his mistakes, and achieves emotional independence, thus learning to overcome emotional pain lightly even after being reprimanded, it presents readers with cheerful and healthy energy.
Seong-jae is often scolded by grownups. He is upbraided by his homeroom teacher for having brought popular character cards to school and for supposedly disliking his seat partner after asking to sit with another classmate on the bus during a field trip. The boy is chided by his mother for tormenting his younger cousin after accidentally hitting the latter boy on the face with a bouncy ball during a game. Though there are reasons and circumstances after all, adults get angry first, without even listening to what Seong-jae has to say. Will the protagonist, thus frustrated by grownups who make communication absolutely impossible, indeed find a way to avoid rebuke?
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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Fiction_Age 8-10
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The Troublemakers
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Hip-hop has gone beyond popular music and become a culture and a style permeating society at large in South Korea as well. Previously an underground culture ardently supported by specific audiences, the genre has become known to a wider class of people through diverse television programs. In addition, the influence of hip-hop over teenagers including children is even stronger.
To South Korean youths, rappers are more th』an simply entertainers. Going beyond icons of popular culture, they serve as attractive role models, too. In such a reality, an increasing number of children consume and admire hip-hop culture, even choosing it as their career path (already, it is possible to several schools based on one’s capacity as a hip-hop singer). What, then, do grownups think of youngsters’ interest in and passion for the genre? Still perceiving hip-hop as a “lowbrow” culture plagued by roughness, drugs, and profanities, most South Korean adults regard with concern children who are avid fans of the genre. Under such circumstances, The Troublemakers is a book that will prompt readers to overcome prejudices against hip-hop, to affirm youngsters’ interest in and yearning for the genre, and to experience the exhilaration of self-expression through hip-hop.
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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Non-fiction
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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_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Fiction_Age 10-13
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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_Children, 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_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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The Story of Deserts from Mrs. Shooting Star
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Having introduced readers to the vast realms of volcanoes, Earth, and outer space and provided them with fascinating explanations of a variety of scientific and historical knowledge in her earlier works, Lee Ji-yoo guides them to the world of deserts this time. Based on her experience of crossing Western Australia, this volume presents fascinating stories of deserts that debunk, in a stroke, common stereotypes of deserts such as sandstorms and camels. The word “desert” recalls typical landscapes: the scorching sun, sandstorms sweeping from everywhere, and parched lands without so much as a blade of grass. Such images, however, are only a part of the sheer variety that deserts exhibit. The definition of a desert is “a place with an annual rainfall of 250 mm or below,” and this condition does not include the temperature. Surprisingly, Antarctica and Greenland, both lands of ice, too, are classified as deserts, and many deserts are distributed even in plateaus covered with rocks as well. This volume examines such diverse aspects of deserts including: the Sahara Desert, which has camels and sand dunes; the Gobi Desert, where many dinosaur fossils are found; the Atacama Desert, which is the highest desert on Earth and thus perfect for observing outer space; Antarctica, the coldest desert; and tundras, lands of white nights and auroras.
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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Non-fiction
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Please Come to My House, Too
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This is the latest story for children by Song Eon, who is well known for masterful depictions of youngsters’ minds. It realistically and fascinatingly portrays the process through which “Mr. Beard,” the homeroom teacher of 3rd-grade Class No. 1, and his students get to know one another through frank dialogue. The children in this work, who grow up actively, positively, and resiliently despite wounds deep inside their hearts will leave lasting images in readers’ minds. Storyline
The homeroom teacher of 3rd-grade Class No. 1, “Mr. Beard” sends notices to all of his students’ families in order to receive applications for home visits. He then visits the homes of Gim Han-sol and Jang Geun-ho upon request from their respective families. Han-sol asks the teacher not to tell his parents that he has made trouble at school. As “Mr. Beard” complies with the request, he and the youngster become much closer. After meeting Geun-ho’s parents and younger brother Geun-sik, who has a disability, at their home, the teacher shows more affection to his student. Yi Eun-hye’s mother has been unable to request a home visit due to her busy work schedule. Through a telephone conversation with her about the family situation, “Mr. Beard” comes to a greater understanding of Eun-hye.
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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Fiction_Age 10-13
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Mui the Squirrel’s Spring
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This volume is a picture book where a story of friends in the forest unfolds against the landscape of a warm spring day. A squirrel living in a forest, Mui feels hungry after smelling violets in the spring breeze. In order to find out how to make seasoned violets, it opens a book titled One Hundred Simple Spring Dishes for Squirrels. “Add honey and salt appropriately? Just how much is ‘appropriately’?” The explanations in the cookbook are all too difficult for the furry little animal. Heading out of its home with curiosity and excitement, the squirrel is just like children, who are full of questions and want answers to them. Thanks to the author-illustrator’s description of spring landscapes, which are presented in detail in a lively yet tidy style, youngsters will be awarded with a rich sensibility and great satisfaction simply by reading this volume. In addition, this work presents a splendid cornucopia of spring plants including budding green sprouts, sweet violets, luxuriant bridal wreath spirea, beautiful primroses, yellow woodland whitlowgrass, ash trees, chocolate vines, and daylilies, thus regaling readers with refreshing and exciting scenes.
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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book