- Overview
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This is a story about an acorn that falls from a tree to build new relationships with the fallen leaves, becoming reborn with new life.
- Book Intro
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Tok! One acorn falls from a white oak. Leaves on the ground embrace the acorn with a warm hug. The fallen leaves protect the acorn and hide it from the humans and other animals, with hopes that the acorn would survive to create new relationships with themselves. The leaves rot away with the change of the seasons, and the acorn is left alone, even feeling scared at times. As the rotten leaves become absorbed into the ground, the acorn goes through the pain of having its body ripped apart, finally being reborn as a young white oak tree.
Through the story of the relationship between the acorn and the fallen leaves, this book reveals the enormous circle of nature in which life perishes and then becomes reborn, showing children the importance of relationships, communication, and life.
- About the Author
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Ahn Dohyun
Poet Ahn Dohyun’s debut was through the Donga Ilbo Shinchun Munye, in 1984. Starting with his first book of poems, Jeon Bong-jun goes to Seoul, he has published 10 books, including his last one, Bukhang. He has received various awards including the Sowol Poetry Award, Yoon Dong-ju Award, the Baekseok Prize for Literature, the Imhwa Literature Prize, etc. Salmon, his children’s story book for adults has been translated and published in 15 languages.
Lee Haery
(English) Lee Hae-ry is a picture book author and illustrator. She studied visual design at Hongik University and the Graduate School of the same university. She wrote and illustrated On a Rainy Day and Run, and illustrated My House Full of Monsters, No One Knows Who I Am, Holes in Our Body, Summer Vacation, A Prickly Water Lily Leaf Said, and Guess Who?. Her works have been translated in many countries and gained praise internationally.
