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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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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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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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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 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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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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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, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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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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Changbi Books, Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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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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Changbi Books_Children, Changbi Books_Children > Picture book
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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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