- Overview
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This book tells a touching story about the nature of a father-child relationship.
- Book Intro
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(Japanese) お父さんと子供の健康な関係を振り返らせる心温まる絵本だ。子供が望んで想像する父親と日常で出会う父親の姿を二拍子の呼吸で構成し、父親に向けた子供の胸熱な告白を書いた。“スーパーマンでなくてもいい。僕はただお父さんがそばにいるだけでいいよ!”愉快で感覚的な絵本だ。
The picture book for fathers that describes a balanced father. The authors, Cho Won-hee (who won the Ragazzi Award at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2017) and An Dante wrote and illustrated this book especially for all ordinary fathers and children. It shows the "ideal father" the child wants and wishes to have, and the "real father" whom the child sees every day in comparison. This is to illustrate what he really thinks about his father. For example, the child wishes his father earned a lot of money and bought everything he wanted as gifts, but he is very happy and excited when his father buys fish-shaped pastries for him on his way home. I Wish My Dad… places the perfect father the child wishes to have next to his real father, who may be quite less ideal. This makes readers compare the ideal father in his fantasy with his father in reality. Seeing such comparisons, readers start to understand what the father and the child are like. They are just ordinary people who are not unique, nor particularly picky, and that is why it's easier to empathize with them. The world of a normal, yet reliable father, who is always there for his child, and the young, yet mature child is joyful, warm, and even touching.
- About the Author
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An Dante
(English) An Dante studied literature and the arts, and searches for those values that cannot be converted into money and writes about them. Small and big worries are An Dante's friends. An Dante wrote I Think Daddy is and Here is a Flower.
Cho Wonhui
(English) Cho Wonhui studied multimedia design at Hongik University and studied illustration at HILLS. She enjoys telling stories by drawing animals and small and yet important things in nature. In Charles, her pictures tell the story of an alliance between weak and marginalized beings to fight against colossal violence.
Her illustrated books include Ice Boy, You Have to Go Alone, Teeth Hunter, The Important Issue, There Is a Line!, and Crash! She won the Bologna Ragazzi Award in the fiction category for Teeth Hunter and the first Best Illustration Book Award from Woongjin Junior Publishers for There Is a Line!
You Have to Go Alone, Cho transferred schools twice when she was young. Each time, she felt an unknown feeling, a mixture of regret, sadness, fear and expectation.
(French) J'ai étudié le design du multimédia à l'université Hongik et l'illustration à HILLS. J'aime raconter une histore par la peinture à propos de la nature, les animaux, les émotions profondes à l'intérieur et les choses petites et précieuses. Il y a les livres écrits et dessinés "Le garçon de glaçon", "Il faut aller tout seul", "Mousieur. muscle et Madame. grosse" et "Le chasseur des crocs". Pour "Le chasseur des crocs", j'ai remorté le prix "Bologna Ragazzi" (Mention spéciale de fiction) en 2017.
- Selection
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Gyeonggi Province, 2018, Book of the Year
