- Overview
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This is a picture puzzle book based on a modern interpretation of the traditional Korean painting "The Butterfly."
- Book Intro
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A girl wearing a blue dress is playing hide-and-seek with a yellow butterfly on a path filled with flowers. The yellow butterfly gently flies around to hide behind flower petals, leaves and flower pots. There are pink peonies, yellow day lilies, red poppies, purple irises, and trumpet creepers fully bloomed on the wall. The yellow butterfly flies around different flowers in the surroundings to hide, and the tiger swallowtail, monarch butterfly and blue butterfly flutter their wings and join the fun. While this picture book is mainly for finding the hiding yellow butterfly, you can also count how many flowers have fully blossomed and how many flowers are about the bloom. The promising Korean painter, Baek Jeehye, used traditional Korean-style strokes in drawing the illustrations. The neat, delicate illustrations drawn on the silk fabric feature various flowers and butterflies commonly found in gardens in Korea. The story of the book is based on the lyrics of the traditional children's song, "Hide and Seek." The book also features detailed information about the butterflies and flowers as well.
- About the Author
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Choi Jeongsun
Choi Jeongsun (F) is an author and editor of picture books. After seeing the flower paintings of Baek Jeehye in an exbition visited by chance, she got an insight on a "picture book featuring the characteristic colors of Korea," and began to plan Flower, Blossomed. With their new-found relationship, the two began planning this book as well. The story of this book is a modern interpretation of the traditional Korean children's song, "Hide and Seek." Choi also wrote many other picture books including Guess Who?, Hug Hug and The Book Washing Its Hair.
Baek Jihye
Baek Jeehye (F) is a promising Korean painter known for her work inheriting the tradition and beauty of Korean paintings. After studying traditional Korean color painting and portrait for a long time, she held multiple private exhibits featuring the themes of people, scenery and memory. In 2007, her first picture book Flower, Blossomed, was published, and it presented a modern interpretation of traditional paintings. Exactly 10 years later, she worked on this book with flowers and butterflies. Her work is also featured in a picture book about the scenery and story of a vegetable field, The Song of the Field (written by poet, Lee Haein).
- Selection
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"Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA), Sejong Books Korean Board on Books for Young People, 2019, Korean entry for Biennial of illustration Bratislava Book Culture Foundation, 2018-2019, Selected book for Bookstart"
