- Overview
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- Book Intro
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It is such a simple story that elderly ladies go on a trip to enjoy the beautiful fallen leaves. They ride on a red bus, go to the mountain, and enjoy all those colorful trees and mountains. It is just an ordinary life of an elderly lady living in the neighborhood, but readers can realize the scenes of ordinary life and how elderly ladies change their minds. These elderly ladies suffering from harsh reality is very indifferent and even wear grey outfits. However, how come these grey ladies can change into the ‘Reds’? The change of elderly ladies is well presented by mischievous imagination of the writer. On their way back home after enjoying beautiful red leaves, the leaves heavily fall down due to the wind. The ladies begin worrying about trees. They sympathize with all the living things and pat each other. They take off their own clothes and give those clothes to warm trees up. However, those trees also worry about elderly ladies who head home wearing only underwear. Trees secretly blow the leaves out toward elderly ladies and those leaves stay around ladies all through the winter, turning their outfits into red.
- About the Author
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Cho Hae Ran
(Russian) Джо Хэ Ран родилась в 1965 г. в г. Сочоне. Закончила университет "Хоник" по специальности корейская живопись. Она также мать, которая учит своих детей тому, что за каждое рисовое зернышко, за каждый кусочек кимчи заплачено потом крестьян. Так она учит здоровому образу жизни детей. Среди ее книг "Одно яйцо", "Воробушек", "История про навоз", "Самульнори", "Бабушка, куда ты идешь? - Я иду за полынью.", "Бабушка, куда ты идешь? - Я иду за дикой вишней.", Бабушка, куда ты идешь? - Я иду за каштанами в лес.", "Бабушка, куда ты идешь? - Я иду за устрицами." и др.
(English) Cho Hae-ran was born in Seocheon, Chungcheonnam-do and studied Korean painting at Hongik University. Children and picture books are the two things that Cho loves most. She thinks of even a single grain of rice and a piece of kimchi as the valuable outcomes of farmers' sweaty labor. She is a mom with a healthy body and mind, and to avoid making any food waste, she does not refuse to eat the leftover food of her daughters. Her published books include An Egg; A Sparrow; Bombs of Poop; Korean Traditional Percussion Quartet; Where Are You Going Grandma? I Am Going to Collect Mugwort!; Where Are You Going Grandma? I Am Going to Pick Cherries!; Where Are You Going Grandma? I Am Going to Pick Chestnuts!; and Where Are You Going Grandma? I Am Going to Catch Oysters!
