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Author

Kwon Jeongsaeng

Kim Hwan-young

Publisher

SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.

Categories

Picture Books

Audience

6~8 years old
9~12 years old

Overseas Licensing

Japanese; Chinese

Keywords

  • #poem
  • #general picture book
  • #history
  • #Korean War
  • #peace
  • #2019 Gothenburg Book Fair

Copyright Contact

Kang hyunjoo

  • Publication Date

    2015-11-20
  • No. of pages

    36
  • ISBN

    9791160943610
  • Dimensions

    185 * 237
Overview

Corn is a picture book about the Korean War as seen through the eyes of a child.

Book Intro

One spring morning in 1950, a boy plants corn seeds with his older brother and mother at one corner of the house, near an earthen wall. One corn, two corns, three corns. The older brother digs a hole, the boy puts in the corn seeds in and the mother covers it with soil. The boy goes to the earthen wall whenever he can to check if the corn has sprouted. He is very glad when sprouts finally peek out of the soil. 

The boy adds fertilizer when the corn is about an inch high and pees on it when it gets to two inches. He probably endured starvation during the crop shortage in the spring while imagining clusters of chunky corn waving in the summer. Then it grows as high as he is and flowers bloom. He points at one of the ears of corn with his finger and says, “This is my corn!” But war broke out while he was waiting for the corn to ripen.  

The whole family packed up and sought refuge at the news that the North Korean People’s Army, whom they have never seen in their entire lives, were coming. The corn at the corner of the house, which will fill up a hungry stomach soon, is “my corn” and the yellow chicks and dog are left behind.

“Hurry up!" At a strange riverside where refugees cluster together to spend a sleepless night, heavy sighs ooze out at the sound of cannonballs in a far distance. When mom and dad worry about the house while looking at the stars, the boy lays his head on his mom’s lap and thinks about the corn he left behind. He thinks, ‘The corn silk and kernels must have formed by now…’ His home village, which he will return to once the sound of gunfire stops, the earthen wall... Are the corns as packed with kernels as the boy dreamed? What about the thatched house left behind, the well, the big tree at the entrance of the village…?

The words of this book are from a poem written by the late Kwon Jeongsaeng when he was in elementary school. He wrote books for small and weak people all his life. He actually experienced war when he was thirteen years old going to elementary school, and fled for shelter. Thus, this poem comes from his personal experience of war, from a memory and feelings remaining in his heart. This book was completed with illustrations by Kim Hwanyoung. It shows the Korean War through the eyes of a child. 

About the Author

Kwon Jeongsaeng



Kim Hwan-young



Kim Hwanyoung was born in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, in 1959, grew up in Seoul, and currently lives in a rural area. Kim studied Western Painting at Hongik University and has worked on the children's books Paper Rice, The Hen who Dreamed She Could Fly,and The Children who Swallowed the Sun,thepicture books Dad Catches Butterflies, Cornand Sliced Sweet Potato,and the children's comics A Ball Kicked by a Dwarf. He also published the collection of children's poems, Black Flower.

 

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