- Overview
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This book gives us the writer's amazing eyes to help us see cicadas in a new light.
- Book Intro
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What do you think of when you hear the word summer? The heat? The ocean? A cool valley? The first thing that comes to the mind of Jang Hyun-Jung, the writer of The Chirrup, is cicadas. When summer finally arrives, after the spring and the rainy season pass, something comes before the heat. It is the cicadas. At first, they seem to approach quietly, from far away in the forest, but soon they are shrilling right next to you. That means, summer is here!
- About the Author
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Jang Hyun-Jung
(English) Jang Hyun-Jung likes to observe the beauty nature gives us and transfer the feelings exactly into pictures. Occasionally, she listens carefully to the many sounds of the world and imagines the life and colors the sounds are telling her about. Then, a world she had never imagined unfolds in front of her eyes. On a hot summer day, she quietly closed her eyes and listened to cicadas' cry for a long time. What are the sounds of summer cicadas telling us? The Chirrup is her first picture book.
(Japanese) 自然が与える美しさを観察し、その感情をそのまま絵に盛り込む作業が好きだ。 『そうしたってカエル』は書き描いた2番目の絵本です。
(Russian) Работы Чан Хёнчжон отличаются вниманием к тончайшим деталям и переполняющей рисунки энергией. Автор известна своими иллюстрированными книгами «Цикада» и «Всего лишь лягушка».
- Recommendation
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Happy Reading in the Morning, 2015, Recommended book
Association for Research on Children’s Book, 2016, Recommended book
Open Kid, 2017, Recommended book
- Selection
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Korean Reading Clinic, 2016, Recommended book
Book Culture Foundation, 2017, Selected book for Bookstart
Bologna Children's Book Fair, 2017, Special Exhibition
