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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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The Taekgyeong Master in My Neighborhood
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The second volume in the Changbi Sundry Neighbors Series, which presents stories of people who dream freely and make challenges with gusto Through a taekgyeon (traditional Korean martial art) master who makes courageous choices in life in his own way and Min-jun, the protagonist, this tale prompts readers to reflect on the definition of true strength and happy and natural ways of using strength. Min-jun, who has yelled at and tormented Gyeong-su, the weakest student in class, to show off his strength, realizes after hearing the master’s words that he must do something other than learning kicking skills in order to be a truly strong person: admitting his own faults and genuinely apologizing to Gyeong-su. In the process of learning and putting into practice the meaning of a “really strong” person, the boy gains a precious friend and a wonderful mentor. As credible and likely characters and incidents unfold fascinatingly, this book will prompt children to realize ways of honing their own strength and living with others. Also adding to the joy of reading this volume are illustrations that, through free-flowing expressive techniques, well depict the flexibility and rhythm of taekgyeon moves.
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Wobbly
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Through the pitiable life of Wobbly, a black chick that has become a part of Sun-jin’s family, this work prompts readers to ponder carefully on the meanings of life and peace. The story begins as the protagonist’s father buys and brings home a hen on one market day in July 1948. Sun-jin’s family raises: Blacky, a jet black hen; Chinny, a hen with yellow feathers; and a rooster with red plumes. Next year, not long before New Year’s Day, the hens brood and hatch eggs. One day, however, one of Blacky’s chicks jumps into the blazing stove. Burned in the fire, the young bird has its beak molder away and all its claws fall out, thus standing awkwardly and walking crookedly. From that day on, it is called “Wobbly.” Burned, Wobbly no longer looks like a chick. Even Blacky, its mother, fails to recognize it, fiercely attacking and pecking on it. The young bird is now a loner. Nevertheless, it overcomes hardships and pain and lives on amidst the devoted care of Sun-jin’s family. Kwon Jeongsaeng Literary Picture Book Series
This series combines Kwon Jeongsaeng’s short stories for children and drawings to arouse new emotions. Reborn as picture books, long-beloved tales expand the moving experience of literature. The series was begun in 2015 with the first volume, Ddolbae Has Been to the Moon (illustrated by Kim Yong-cheol), in a wish that these works would meet and enrich even more readers, transcending generations. The Kwon Jeongsaeng Literary Picture Book Series will continue to be published in the future.
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Bye-bye, Rabbit
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The protagonist of Bye-bye, Rabbit is Si-u, a boy living in the mountains who yearns for a pair of earmuffs made of rabbit fur. Living with his mother, the youngster envies his friends, who put on rabbit fur earmuffs. Hearing from his peers that their fathers and elder brothers have made the coveted protection against the cold by catching rabbits, he is dejected but nevertheless bravely sets out alone to hunt one himself. After making a snare with wire, Si-u goes to the mountains and follows a rabbit by its footprints. Against the backdrop of the village’s snow-covered rear mountains, sensitively portrayed is the mind of the ingenuous child who chases after the rabbit. However, the rabbit continuously avoids the snare set up by the hero and runs away. While unfolding the story with tension, this volume transmits to readers a weighty message about the value of life. In an age when most youngsters live in cities, the tale of a boy hunting in the mountains may be somewhat unfamiliar. Nevertheless, the author amply arouses readers’ empathy through the literary depth of his text. By making use of his childhood experience of playing in nature, he realistically depicts a boy who lives in a mountain village and enables Si-u to feel the pain of life and to reflect on himself through the incident in the mountains. Bye-bye, Rabbit is a work that quietly shows to those who have unthinkingly tormented or killed very small and weak life forms such as insects that all living beings breathe and live together in nature.
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A Dictionary of Nine-year-old’s Hearts
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It is not easy for youngsters to express their emotions accurately. As in the example that South Korean children have come to use the words “I’m peeved” often in recent years instead of other, diverse expressions such as “I’m in pain,” “I’m not pleased,” “I’m upset,” and “I feel I wasn’t treated fairly,” youngsters are likely to be incapable of articulating what they feel properly or to use simple expressions repeatedly. Inaccurate descriptions of emotions make communication with friends, parents, and teachers difficult and can lead to unnecessary misunderstanding or conflict as well. A book that lists 80 words expressing the state of the heart from “moved” to “glad” in an alphabetical order like a dictionary, A Dictionary of Nine-year-olds’ Hearts shows situations often faced by children in daily life and provides expressions of feelings suited to them. While empathizing with the circumstances presented through brief text and realistic illustrations, young readers will keenly feel a variety of emotions and learn expressions for them appropriate for the situation. In addition, they can learn the actual usage by reading the explanations, understanding the precise meanings, and learning diverse situations in which these expressions of emotions are used. Once they learn various expressions for emotions through A Dictionary of Nine-year-olds’ Hearts, young readers will be far better equipped to articulate their feelings and to communicate with others.
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The Flower petal Dresses of the Dressmaker in the Forest
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Choi Hyang-rang’s earlier volumes, The Dressmaker in the Forest and The Dressmaker in the Forest and the Hairy Monster (both published by Changbi) are heartwarming picture books where a seamstress in the forest makes clothes for sylvan animals and Kungkung, an abandoned puppy. In The Flower Petal Dresses of the Dressmaker in the Forest, children who have come to the dressmaker in the forest put on diversely colored flower petal clothes each day and express their ever-changing minds in terms of colors, thus focusing on color-induced visual stimulation and emotional connection. The page spreads of this latest book follow the order of red-yellow-green-blue-brown-violet-pink-white and each feature a youngster. In disparately colored attires, the children chirp that red clothes make you want to dance, yellow ones make you laugh for no reason, and blue ones make you want to be alone at times. The left side of each spread is decorated with dozens of diverse flowers, leaves, seeds, sepals, colored paper, and fabrics, thus stimulating youngsters’ five senses including vision. On the right side, a child character dressed in petals of the color of each scene expresses any one of a variety of feelings including passion, delight, loneliness, and sadness, thus forging emotional bonds with young readers. As such, this book will help youngsters to look into, understand, and express their own minds.
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Don’t Copy Me
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Don’t Copy Me! is a picture book that depicts how three- and four-year-olds, a time when children form their sense of self and learn to forge relationships with people around them, makes friends with and become close to their peers. It wittily portrays the process through which Sae-mi and Gang-i engage in a mental tug-of-war but are ultimately reconciled while eating snacks together. With her unique sensibility and through heartwarming drawings, Jeong Soon-hee vividly captures and expresses psychological changes in youngsters as they are revealed in ordinary and familiar everyday situations, thus winning and engrossing readers. By muting the background and focusing solely on changes in the movements and facial expressions of the two protagonists and a cat and unfolding the story through simple, repetitive dialogues and a variety of onomatopoeias and words mimicking motions, she immediately captivates readers. Storyline
Sae-mi and Gang-i are youngsters aged three or four. Between them is Yaong, a cat. Bored alone, Sae-mi looks at and mimics the animal. Seeing this, Gang-i then apes her, claiming that she is “better” at it. Feeling that the girl is teasing her, the little girl is chafed—even though, she, too, has imitated Yaong. Sae-mi tells Gang-i not to copy her, but she takes no notice whatsoever. In the end, the little girl decides to play by herself once again… Will the two children ever become close friends?
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African Chocolate
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We are in the savannahs of Africa. “Hey, stop!”
A band of tourists suddenly appears and chases after animals such as zebras and warthogs in a car, absorbed in taking photographs of the continent’s beasts and pressing the shutters of their cameras each second. In the process, an entire chocolate bar falls from the driver’s mouth through the car window… Which animal will win the trophy, now lying on the ground? “Sniff-sniff, what is this?”
A nearby rufous elephant shrew discovers the snack, which is the size of its body, and is about to take a big bite for a taste, only to have it whisked away by a giraffe: “What’s that? Hand it over!” However, a grivet appears all of a sudden, having climbed a tree to approach the lofty animal, and quickly snatches and unwraps the chocolate bar—too preoccupied with the new treat to notice a lion lurking behind a boulder. The scene changes to show the lion sleeping, with the prized sweet securely held in his front paws. A clever agama coaxes the chocolate bar from the king of beasts with a lullaby and darts away, only to find itself face to face with a warthog. The trophy subsequently changes hands, from a cheetah to an elephant and then a cattle egret. None, however, fully possesses it. The chocolate dwindles in size as it melts in the African heat and in and under the mouths and hooves of the animals among which it is passed around. By the time a gorilla finally gets hold of it, the prize has already melted away, leaving only the wrapping. From rufous elephant shrews to gorillas, animals that have had even a taste of the treat now start chasing after the group of sightseers.
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Watermelon Swimming Pools
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A summer festival enjoyed by all in huge, cool watermelon swimming pools!
The “watermelon swimming pools,” eagerly awaited by everyone each summer!
Clever imagination to beat the heat Watermelon Swimming Pools is a picture book that develops this refreshing and expansive fantasy. It is a sleepy country village. Each year, when the summer sun heats up, “watermelon swimming pools” open. An enormous watermelon splits into two, thus allowing all villagers to dive in and play. Indeed, the watermelon swimming pools are the focus of everyone’s attention. Men working in rice paddies, youngsters playing jumpsies, and women hanging out the laundry to dry all welcome the news of the opening of the watermelon swimming pools. Grownups and children alike jump into the cool watermelon pieces, digging out the meat of the fruit and immersing themselves. Youngsters play by throwing the flesh of watermelon at one another. Some dive from watermelon leaves while others make huge sculptures from watermelon seeds and meat. Looking at the villagers as they forget their daily routines for the moment and enjoy the summer in the watermelon swimming pools, readers, too, will become joyful. In particular, it will be sufficient for children even just to imagine the variety of games that can be played in these sufficient for children even just to imagine the variety of games that can be played in these watermelon swimming pools using the soft, red watermelon flesh, round, black watermelon seeds, and firm, smooth watermelon rinds. The volume portrays the blazing sun, firm watermelon flesh, red and refreshing watermelon juice, children’s laughter, cool showers, scarlet evening glow, and nighttime fireflies, thus prompting readers vividly to feel the atmosphere of summer as they turn the pages. As such, this picture book can be enjoyed by young and old alike each summer. A special space enjoyed by everyone regardless of age, gender, and disability
Especially impressive in this book is the harmonious way in which all villagers mingle regardless of age, gender, and disability. Indeed, the first visitor to the watermelon swimming pools is a hoary old man. Though he inadvertently moans, “Alley-oop!” as he bends to sit down, his excitement at seeing the newly opened watermelon swimming pools is no different from that of a child. Though wrinkled, the face of a grandmother riding a slide made of a watermelon rind is full of life. As such, the watermelon swimming pools are spaces where not only youngsters but also middle-aged men and women, elderly men and women, families, friends, and neighbors mix together. Here, even children on wheelchairs have no problem whatsoever in playing with their friends. The back view of the characters who, after playing together regardless of differences, gaze at the sunset shoulder to shoulder will convey to readers warm-heartedness that values one’s neighbors. Heartwarming family love reflected in a watermelon
The scene where children return to their respective homes one by one in response to calls of their names after playing until sunset will give young readers the sense of satisfaction that comes from having played to their hearts’ content and prompt adult readers nostalgically to recall childhoods. When maple leaves fall on them and the festival has ended, the empty swimming pools will close, promising enjoyment next year. In the last scene, this book shows an image of an entire watermelon that has been eaten and spoons, all on a small portable dining table, thus implying that the story of “watermelon swimming pools” was in fact a fantasy created while sharing the fruit with one’s family. Looking at this, readers will be able to picture a father returning home with a watermelon for his family. This family may be anticipating water games during the forthcoming summer vacation or may be unable properly to take a summer holiday due to the demands of a busy everyday life. At any rate, the image of a family seated around a table and spending the summer while eating watermelon will warm readers’ hearts.
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The Pink Wrapping Cloth
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This volume is the first original picture book by painter Yun Bo-won. In fact, it is based on the author’s memory of her daughter playing with a traditional Korean wrapping cloth (bojagi) brought by her grandmother at the age of four or five. With a single wrapping cloth, the youngster in this work plays an exciting game all day long. In her imagination, a cheap and common wrapping cloth becomes the longest dress in the world, a carpet that sails across the sky, and a ship unshaken by high waves. Vividly and humorously portrayed is the variegated world of imagination that unfolds in the child’s mind. Ending with the protagonist falling asleep in a snug blanket after a thrilling adventure, the story will provide young readers with joy and satisfaction. Revealed in this work is the author’s warm perspective that play and the imagination are the power behind children’s growth. Transformation into a dress, wings, and a carpet!
An exciting imaginative game played with a wrapping cloth The child unfurls and holds up the pink wrapping cloth that Granny has brought. What games will she play with it? The wrapping cloth turns into a gently wagging tail when placed on the buttocks, the longest dress in the world when tied around the waist, a big bag that can hold everything when tied into a loop and slung over the shoulder, and an exciting picnic mat to be sat on together with friends when spread on the floor. Though only a sheet of cheap and ordinary wrapping cloth, it is an incomparably outstanding toy that can turn into anything according to the child’s wish in her imagination.
that can turn into anything according to the child’s wish in her imagination. Depicting a child’s thrilling game of imagination, The Pink Wrapping Cloth is the first original picture book by the author, who has created endearing and unique illustrations. It is based on the painter’s memory of her daughter actually playing with a wrapping cloth at the age of four or five. As familiar objects and situations change in a myriad ways and proceed, the story will win the hearts of youngsters who enjoy imaginative games in everyday life. A composition that clearly and simply shows objects and circumstances without long explanations, too, will be readily accessible to children around the protagonist’s age. With a single wrapping cloth, the youngster in this volume excitedly plays all day long. Beginning with small and dainty objects such as a tail, wings, a dress, and a floor mat, her imagination gradually increases as both space and time expand. The wrapping cloth turns into a large and dashing horse and rushes across the sky, a nest that enfolded dinosaur eggs several hundred million years ago and embraces a baby dinosaur, and a carpet that sails across the sky and traverses a vast desert as well. In addition, it becomes a sturdy ship when crossing a rough sea and a high-speed sleigh when passing through forest amidst a snowstorm. Readers will feel the vivacious energy typical of children in the protagonist’s excited play as she travels across a forest, a desert, the sea, a rainstorm, and a blizzard. In the last scene, where the girl finally returns home and falls asleep under the wrapping cloth, which has now turned into the coziest blanket in the world, will present young readers with a sense of both satisfaction and stability. A warm perspective that celebrates the power of play and the imagination For young readers’ ready comprehension, The Pink Wrapping Cloth presents and repeats simply constructed scenes. In each scene, realistically depicted on the left side is a child playing with a wrapping cloth at home and on the right side is the youngster’s inner landscape. While the actual world is tersely portrayed only with lines, without any color, the world of imagination is expressed in gorgeous colors in an exaggerated and humorous manner so as to contrast with reality. Vividly stressing the world that unfolds in the child’s mind, such composition reflects the author’s belief that youngsters grow through play and the imagination.
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