- Overview
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This picture book is about the Octopus Bathhouse, where your lonely heart can be washed clean.
- Book Intro
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(Japanese) タコ銭湯オープンイベント!大人は8,000ウォン、子供は800ウォン、お母さんと一緒じゃなくて一人で来た子供は80ウォン!
私一人でタコ銭湯へ行ったら、どんなことが起きるでしょう?真っ黒な私の心を白く流してくれるタコ銭湯へいらっしゃい!This story grew from a question: “How can a motherless child go to a bathhouse?” The sense of loss and emptiness that someone feels when they don’t have a mother can’t be easily filled by those around them. But the courage and confidence to overcome such loneliness hides inside all of us. The problem is finding those hidden emotions and making them stronger.
Octopus Bathhouse is a picture book that delivers a message of courage: “You can do it all by yourself. You are never alone.” This book invites motherless, fatherless, and friendless children, and anyone else who feels they are alone, to come to the Octopus Bathhouse and play cheerfully together.
- About the Author
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Choi Minji
(English) Author Choi Min-ji is a picture book writer who received the WEE Korean Children’s Picture Book Award in 2019 and published The Octopus Sauna, The Elephant Hair Salon, and Look at Me.
(Japanese) 絵本作家。２０１９年ＷＥＥ絵本アワードを受賞。作品に『タコ銭湯』、『ゾウの美容室』、『わたしを見て』など多数。
