- Overview
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This picture book tells the story of how a mother pheasant saves babies from a big fire.
- Book Intro
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Wild and winged animals are in a hurry to escape from a big fire. The mother pheasant cannot leave alone because she has nine newborn babies to take care of. She tries to escape, but then comes back to baby pheasants. In the end, the mother pheasant dies in the fire, covering the nine babies with her wings. Although she dies, baby pheasants remain safe and sound. All of them manage to survive. They hunt around looking for food, then hide under the bony body of their mom. After ten days… and a month… the little birds have grown up but they still stay with their dead mother, to smell her and sleep with her. The mother pheasant protects her babies until her bones become ashes. Just as Kwon Jungsaeng wrote a memo saying "it is sufficient to show how a mother's love is," this book represents the extreme maternal instinct by showing how the weak mother pheasant, who had nothing but her body, managed to save her nine babies from overwhelming disaster.
- About the Author
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Kwon Jeongsaeng
Kim Sehyun
Kim Sehyun was born in 1963 in Yeongi in the South Chungcheong province of South Korea and raised in Daejeon. Kim majored in Oriental Painting in college. In 2004, Kim won the 4th Publication Art Award. In 2009, Kim was selected as an exhibition painting illustrator of the guest-country of honor. Books illustrated by Kim Sehyun include Same Shirts, Strong Bhusoong, The Isolated House in the Isolated area, Fish Bone, Mama Pheasant, Memories of Chung-Gu Hoe, Jongmyo Shrine where People Meet God, The Story of the Grateful Pheasants, The Island of Flowers, The Flower-Shaded Lake, Princess Pyeong-gang and Ondal the Stupid, A Badger and a Flea, The Camellias, and I Won't Go Out Even if the King Calls Me.
- Award
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5th Korea Publishing Culture Award in Illustration
- Recommendation
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Changbi Publishers, 2008, Changbi Review of Children's Literature, Book of the Year
