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A Weird Kid and Her Weird Friends

Author

Song Mikyoung

MIJA CHO

Publisher

Wisdom House, Inc

Categories

Fairy Tale Books

Audience

6~8 years old
9~12 years old

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Friend
  • #play
  • #school life
  • #growth
  • #weird friend

Copyright Contact

Kwon Julia

  • Publication Date

    2018-10-22
  • No. of pages

    112
  • ISBN

    9788962479850
  • Dimensions

    167 * 212
Overview

This book presents story of weird, extraordinary, and cool children who come to know who they are as they get long with friends who are a little or a lot different from them.

Book Intro

For children, play is a natural part of daily life. While playing, they learn, overcome bad experiences, and grow up. That's a well-known truth to all of us. However, children in this era are so busy studying that they never have enough time to play. Even when they do get a chance to play freely, they don't know what to do. Song Mikyong, the author of this book, has a brilliant solution for such children. "You just need to have a lot of fun over the whole day," says Song. 

The main character, Yuri, is not quite a good student, but she is adventurous and always confident. A good student, Siha, is so quiet that people don't know whether she is there or not and sometimes she is mistaken for a ghost. Useong loves playing with dolls. Hyeonbin always gives unsolicited advice to others and finishes his sentences with rhymes. Yeonghye is pessimistic, contemplative, and mature. The individuality of these five children is so distinct that sometimes they seem strange. A Weird Kid and Her Weird Friends contains small episodes of these five children respecting each other’s individuality, protecting their self-esteem with their own ways, and communicating with each other.

They get to know themselves better by getting along with friends who are a little or a lot different from them. They also learn about what moments make them upset, what moments they look forward to, and what the best activity to pass time is. They understand themselves better by playing with friends who have different thoughts and behave differently, and so the five children laugh, run, stay quiet, and complain in their own manner. As they do so, they grow up little by little. 

Illustrations of the children consist of unstructured free-form lines (just like children playing freely), which remind readers of their childhood.

The world is interesting because we have many different types of friends who all laugh with different voices. The author wrote this book in the hope that the children who can’t play enough will be able to learn how to have a fun day in their own way, and that the world in which they live will become a little more fun.

About the Author

Song Mikyoung



(Japanese) 文を書いたソン・ミギョンはウンジンジュニアー文学賞、第5回昌原児童文学賞、第54回韓国出版文学賞を受賞し、2005年アメリカイラストレーター協会で授与する金メダルを受け、ダビド・カリと一緒に作業した『私は待ちます...』でバオバブ賞を、『世界を揺らす31人のばかたち』で2007年ボローニャラガチ賞を受賞した。

 

Song Mikyoung made her literary debut in 2008 winning the Woongjin Junior Literary Award with her work The School for the Children who Don’t Want to Go to School. Song won the 5th Changwon Children’s Literary Award with A Kid who Eats Stones and the 54th Korean Publishing Culture Award with Some Kid Is. Stories for children written by Song Mikyoung include The School Newsletter Commotion, The Can Academy, The Sewing Girl, The Diary Eating Journals and The Goddess of Vengeance. Novels for adolescents written by Song include The Madman Surgical Report, The Concentration of an Addiction (co-authorship), and The Density of a Complex (co-authorship).

MIJA CHO



(English) Cho Mija studied painting for her BA at Hongik University, Seoul. She cuirrently lives in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, and continues to draw illustrations for picture books. Cho always tries to use pure colors and funny lines so that her illustrations feel familiar to children. She started with her first book One Day at a Park in 2000, and since then has published sixteen creative picture books. She wrote One Day at a Park, Climbing with Spider’s Web, Bubble Bubble Pop Pop, I Will Sleep In My Room, Not My Pee!, The Worry Box, Meet  My Friend, Anxiety, Sometimes I, Tire World, Our Last Summer, and more.

 

(Russian) планирование и написание детских книг. Книги <Улыбка Понгпонги>, <Мои первые питомцы, секретная рыба> и т.д.

 

(Japanese) 絵: 弘益大学で絵画を学び、現在は子供向けの本の絵を描いています。「イカ(Squid)」など多くの絵本の絵を担当し、「心配箱(Worry Box)」、「僕がおしっこしたんじゃない!(Not My Pee!)」などを作りました。

 

(Vietnamese) Tác giả Jo Mi-ja (tranh) từng học chuyên ngành Hội họa tại trường đại học Hongik và hiện đang theo đuổi công việc vẽ tranh cho truyện thiếu nhi. Tác giả đã vẽ tranh cho nhiều truyện thiếu nhi khác như “Chú mực ống nhỏ”, “Mình ra sân chơi nhé”, v.v, ngoài ra cô cũng là tác giả viết truyện kiêm vẽ tranh của các tác phẩm như  “B là Bóng đá”, “Mình thích bông hoa”, v.v.

 

(French) L’auteure a étudié la peinture à l’Université Hongik et actuellement, elle fait des illustrations des livres pour les enfants. Elle a participé à l’illustration des livres tels que « Petit Poulpe », « Boîte d’inquiétudes » et « Ce n’est pas mon pipi ! ».

Selection

Reading Aloud Campaign, 2019, Good Book for Reading


Association for Research on Children’s Book, 2019, Book for Children and Teenagers


Korean School Librarian Association, 2019, Recommended book


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