- Overview
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This book presents an unprecedented literature experience to its readers through five chilling, lonely, funny, sad, and strange stories.
- Book Intro
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These stories pose a question to a subject and a fact that we all think we know so well. What if there is a person who is an adult since they were born? (My adult brother) A brown rabbit that you saw on the street actually was a cute little girl just a while ago (Rora who was cute), and what if there is a town in a bag that my dad lives in? (Dad is coming out from a bag)
With this unique creativity such as a dad who does not come out of his bag and five-year-old boy who has the mind of a 34-year-old, the author makes the readers smile. Then again, with believable stories having speedy development, readers will think these stories could be true.
- 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).
- Award
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The Korean Publishing Culture Awards, The Grand Prize
Arco Literary Creation Support Fund, 2013
- Recommendation
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National Library for Children & Young Adults, Recommended Book by librarians
- Selection
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Book Trust, 2017, The Foreign Book of the Year shortlisted book
