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This book depicts a fuss brought about by a bear in a boring classroom on a tedious spring day in which nothing special seems likely to happen.
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On a spring day when nothing surprising seems likely to happen, a marvelous present comes!
An imagination anyone might once have had during the days in which the same landscapes are repeated like seen from a bus running the same route. Springtime Bear depicts the fuss of a curious day on which a boy's imagination is realized.
With his birthday cake in front of him, Isang is thinking about what wish he would make. It would be great if there was a buddy he could play with living nearby, if new rides were installed in the school playground, or if a serious troublemaker transferred to his classroom. But before he could make a wish, his little brother did it instead.
“Please make a bear come on his birthday. A huge, brown bear!”
Was it due to this? There comes a new classmate to Isang’s classroom. Together with a huge, brown bear. But this bear has some cute characteristics. He is so amazingly charming - he is so shy that he talks in whispers, wants to run around on the desks, and conducts the happy birthday song sorrowfully saying his dream is to become a conductor. Fears disappear, and the silence that has always filled the classroom and the awkwardness between friends go away. And then an uproarious fuss and adventure take place as a substitute.
The day shaken by a bear shakes every day!
Are you feeling bored and fed up about the same everyday routine? Not anymore. Awesome and marvelous things will happen again tomorrow!
The classroom where not a single bee flew into by mistake. The classroom like a museum, where the students whispered even during recess and chewed their lunch quietly, begins to rock from the point when the new bear sets foot inside the classroom and elbows his way through the lined up desks to his seat.
Isang, spending blessed time with the bear, makes up his mind to do the things that satisfy him at each moment. The children, who once said there would be nothing surprising for their class, now believe awesome and marvelous things will happen tomorrow again.
- About the Author
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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).
Cha Sangmi
Illustrator Cha Shangmi has been drawing for a variety of media after majoring in visual design. Her works include: The No-Lose Toy Egg Vending Machine, How to Fly, The Spring Bear, What If It Comes Off?, and Is It Just Me?.
(French) Cha Sang-mi étudie la conception visuelle, travaille en tant qu'illustrateur et dessine sur différents supports tels que des livres et des vidéos.
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