- Overview
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- Book Intro
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Mi-Yoo decided to become a family with abandoned hamster right after meeting the hamster. Not long after, Mi-Yoo found out the truth that she also was adopted. Mom told her that it was nothing to cry about and Mi-Yoo also nodded. However, she felt sad and she could not even explain why. Therefore, when she felt sad at night alone, she told her secret to her hamster, ‘Hamlet’.
Mom says it is totally ok, but why do I feel sad? Where are you coming from, Hamlet?
I’m so sorry for bringing you to us without asking your opinion……
The writer has earned the respect with her unique world view based on her extraordinary style and fantasy. Through this book, the writer lets readers deeply look into the process of various feelings mixed in a child such as joy, sadness, and healing with her own delicate point of view. Children readers will be deeply touched by warm-hearted illustrations by the illustrator, Mo, Ye-Jin, because she created these illustrations from the beginning scene of Mi-Yoo and Hamlet meeting together for the first time to the ending scene of staying happily together by using the dream of mom just one day before she adopted Mi-Yoo.
While growing up, all the children cannot avoid sadness which cannot be comforted by anything someday. This book is about the story of beautiful people who seriously and kindly watch and help a young child to get over by herself while reflecting herself on a hamster, even a weaker animal.
- 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).
Mo Ye-jin
(English) Mo visualizes stories. Her written and illustrated books include That Happens and Where Are You Going? Her illustrated books include Time-baking Bakery, Fragrant Garden of Words, A Child Planner, and Queen of Letters. Mo was selected as illustrator of the year in 2015 and 2016 at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
(Japanese) 2015年と2016年ボローニャ児童図書展で今年のイラストレーターに選定された。絵本『そんなことはたまにある』を出し、童詩集『ホットドッグ売ってます』に絵を描いた。
(Vietnamese) Tác giả đã viết sách tranh 《Thỉnh thoảng có những chuyện như vậy》 và 《Đi đâu thế》, và vẽ tranh cho 《Đứa trẻ kim》, 《Nghĩa sĩ Eunjae》, và 《Tiệm bánh nướng thời gian》. Năm 2015 và 2016, tác giả được chọn là ‘Người vẽ tranh minh họa của năm’ tại Hội chợ sách dành cho trẻ em Bologna.
