- Overview
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This is a picture book about longing for the things we have forgotten as we go through life.
- Book Intro
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On an ordinary day when nothing is likely to happen, a dinosaur visited me.
“Hi! It's been a long time!” With a big smile on his face, the dinosaur, whom I did not recognize, came into my room and started unpacking. This bespectacled dinosaur ate whatever I served her, snored loudly at night, farted frequently and slept well. She embarrassed me several times when he laughed or cried at some unremarkable scenes in the theater, but she was extremely good at ping-pong. Strangely, no one looked at the dinosaur or made a curious face. "Who... are you?"
Without answering my question, the dinosaur quietly stared out the window. After a gulp of a cold beverage at an amusement park where I brought her to cheer her up, the dinosaur began to talk. ""Is it easier to be forgotten? or to forget?"
- About the Author
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Jeon Mihwa
Jeon Mihwa (M) studied picture books at the Hanguk Ilustration School (Hills) and won the Illustrator of the Year at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for her work, The Raindrops Fall in 2015. Books written and drawn by Jeon Mihwa include Why Charles' Eyebrows Are Lifted, I’m Brave, Run!, Motorcycle, and MiYoung.
- Recommendation
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With such a big question about life, "Is it easier to be forgotten? or to forget?", It Was You asks us to look back on the ugly life we have been living and recall as if we travel, and even it gives us unexpected surprise. There are things that always shine brightly where they are - especially our momories do so. - Lee Byungryul (poet and traveling photographer), 2017.
- Selection
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Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA), 2017, the Book of the Month