- Overview
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- Book Intro
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In this book, the writer deals with all kinds of things regarding home based on her own experience and a wide amount of meticulous data collection. Home is the place where children live and spend most of their time. Even if home is the most important place in the world, but it is not that easy to take good care of it while living an ordinary life. The book not just teaches readers how to carefully observe all the corners of our homes and how to manage our homes, but also it makes readers reconsider how our homes mean to ourselves. In this book, the writer presents the process of the family of “Happiness”, who newly move into this house, putting their furniture and nesting their own home. Through the story of “Happiness” family, readers will be able to understand their own homes more deeply, and to nurture the power and imagination to take care of home. It is so funny to find out some humor codes of “Happiness” family with three people plus a puppy. The Characteristics of this Book 1. Plan how to use the space properly 2. Train ourselves for good organization skills 3. Learn how to manage our home depending on the weather 4. Pursue harmony with our neighbors 5. Prepare for emergency
- About the Author
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Choi Miran
(English) Choi Miran studied Industrial Design at the University of Seoul and worked as a graphic designer. Being drawn to drawing, she went to study illustrations at graduate school and has been illustrating for children’s books. Whenever she finishes a picture book, she cleans her entire house. She works at home, and while she is working, she does not have time to clean. Choi loves the comforting feeling of laying in her bed after cleaning up her desk, her room, and her house which has been full of dust, dirt, and garbage.
Choi was the winner of the BolognaRagazzi Award in fiction. She writes and illustrates at her house that overlooks a children’s park. Choi has illustrated many children’s books including Is Somebody Here?, The Tiger That Was Taken by the Death Angel, Seokguram, the Stone House, How the Superhero Washes His Poo, Talking Horses, A Child Who Lived for Three Hundred Years, Gupbo Manbo, The Zoo of Letters, and writes the picture books of How to Take Care of My House and We Are the House Keepers!
(Chinese) 在首尔市立大学学习产业设计，毕业后成为一名图形设计师。对画画产生了兴趣，所以进入研究生院学习画插图，并从事童书绘制工作至今。每当结束一本画册，都会对家里进行大扫除。平时在家里画画和生活，但工作期间不能经常打扫卫生。非常喜欢彻底清扫满是灰尘、污垢、垃圾的房间、书桌之后，躺在床上的那种舒适感。曾获博洛尼亚国际儿童书展拉加齐奖虚构类优秀奖。在可以俯瞰儿童公园的家里写作和画画。已为《有人吗？》《被阴间使者抓走的老虎》《用石头盖的房子——石窟庵》《超级英雄的擦屎法》《马生活的国家》《三百的七日葬》《胆小鬼晚报》《文字动物园》等多本童书绘制插图，个人创作绘本有《家庭收纳整理法》和《我们是家庭守护者》。
