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MISSING SWORD - please help find his toy

Author

Yoo Junjae

Lee Juhee

Publisher

Munhakdongne Publishing Group

Categories

Picture Books

Audience

6~8 years old
9~12 years old

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Lost goods
  • #fliers
  • #treasure
  • #reminiscences
  • #memories
  • #parting
  • #friendship

Copyright Contact

Lee Bokhee

  • Publication Date

    2019-09-11
  • No. of pages

    40
  • ISBN

    9788954657631
  • Dimensions

    200 * 254
Overview

Book Intro

On a sunny day, a thundering cry fills the air. Yeonwoo Jeong, the neighborhood’s most avid playground lover, is bursting into tears. He says he only got to play with his new toy sword for a day when he lost it. Half worried and half curious, the town kids stand around Yeonwoo and begin to guess the sword’s whereabouts. With quite serious looks, they also share their experiences of losing a treasure. We hear stories of how a grandmother knitted a long muffler that rings around the neck as many as three times, how a ducky doll had the scent of sweet candies, how a cat found in a parking lot was brought home and became a younger sister, how a game boy went out of order before the winner was decided, how there was a cousin to share every secret with, how there was a piggy bank that became heavier by the day, and how once there was a mom… These stories about precious people, about things that had been within the closest reach but are no longer there, and all the memories therein, unfold through nine different voices. Now, with perfect teamwork, the kids set out to make fliers for the missing sword. Although missing for just a day, the kids can all understand how precious the sword must have been for Yeonwoo. Will Yeonwoo be able to find his sword as everyone hopes? The kids don’t let their friend suffer alone. Where will their touching and warm friendship lead them?

One day, author Yoo Junjae saw a flier for a missing toy sword, which sparked his idea for this story. When he saw the fliers posted around his apartment complex, he could picture children bustling and running in search of the sword, and he empathized with their desperate struggle to find it. At the time, Yoo was having a difficult time letting go of a family member who’d been enduring a long battle with illness. So, for the author, the flier capturing the kids’ earnest wish came as a question of saying goodbye to someone or something precious. In this story, the “sword” symbolizes “hurt,” beyond simply being a lost item. Yoo’s own child as well as the local kids provided him with ideas for the story. He chose an interview format to introduce a new main character in every scene and allow each character to vividly tell their own story, while the illustrator captured the characters’ sweet memories in a fun and engaging comic book format. 

About the Author

Yoo Junjae



Yoo Junjae (M), studied Fiber Arts at Hongik University. He wrote and illustrated picture books including My Ball, In Mom's Dream, Balance and The Blue Wave and illustrated children's stories including The King of Boys, My Little Brother Is on Mars, The Can School and The Boy Protecting Atomics Earth, as well as the children's poem collection Cold Goose. For his work Animal Farm, Yoo won an award at the 15th NOMA Concours in 2007, and he was selected as the Illustrator of the Year at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for The Blue Wave in 2015.

Lee Juhee



(English) Stories are marvelous. On a particularly hard day, a sad and gloomy day, a depressing day when I don’t know my own mind, or a boring day, I read a book. Then I get immersed in the story and all my worries disappear. These stories have been long lasting. I wrote Trouble Bookstore to introduce old stories to my readers.

  I wrote and illustrated Trouble Restaurant, Where Did the Shadow Go?, What Do You See?, What Shall I Do?! Kitty, It’s Alright, It’s Our First Time, A Record of Stopping from Being Clingy, Come On, This Is Your First Time in a Library, Right?, and I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend!, and illustrated I Can’t Stop My Class, My Brother, Philip, and I Am a Caterpillar, No. 7 in Class 2 of the Third Grade.

 

(Indonesian) Penulis merasa terpukau dengan makanan. Ketika ia bosan atau lapar, ketika tubuhnya sakit atau dia merasa kelelahan pun, kalau makan dia akan merasa bertenaga. Setiap hari ia membuat buku bergambar sambil manyantap makanan sepuasnya. Buku karya bergambar yang ia tulis antara lain, "Apa yang terlihat?" "akhirnya si pembuntu* mandiri" (pengekor ini untuk padanan bahasa slang Korea KKumttakji yang artinya orang yang suka mengikuti kemana pun kamu pergi) , Untuk buku bergambar yang ia gambar antara lain, "saya beri solusi masalah yang dikhawatirkan PBB", "Kentut ayah", "adikku Philip", "ulat absen no 7 kelas 3-2".

 

(Japanese) 食べ物はとても不思議です。お腹が空いた時やつまらない時、病気や心が疲れた時も美味しい食べ物を食べると力が出ます。毎日一生懸命食べながら3冊目の絵本を作りました。書いて描いた本で『何が見える?』『ガム甲羅独立期』、絵を描いた本では『お父さんのおなら』『僕の弟フィリップ』『私は3年2組7番幼虫』などがあります。

 

 

Recommendation

We often see things more clearly—how sweet someone was, how they made us feel safe, and how they looked—after we’ve lost them. Then we finally begin to see what we now have around us and how we have grown up learning to endure loss. The kids retrace their losses before they set out to search for Yeonwoo’s sword. And, with their desperate longing to regain what they’ve lost, they team up to search the missing sword for their friend. - Song Mikyeong, Children’s Book Writer, 2019.


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