- Overview
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This picture book features the Heungsu Child, or an Upper Pleistocene child’s skeleton, as a speaker who vividly depicts the Paleolithic era in Korean Peninsula.
- Book Intro
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This picture book features Hungsu Child, an Upper Pleistocene child’s skeleton discovered in the Durubong Cave site in Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheong-bukdo in December 1982, as a speaker who vividly depicts the life of the Paleolithic people.
Hungsu Child’s friend saessak and neighbors use various paleolithic tools for respective needs, which reflects that paleolithic people used tools depending on the necessity. Their life also shows us that paleolithic people hunted and ate animals, made fire to cook meat, block off access from wild animals, and made simple ornaments.
The author hopes that this book could give readers an opportunity to understand the root and origin of Korean history.
- About the Author
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Han Young-Mi
(English) Thanks to her elementary school teacher who loved to tell stories during their breaks, Han Young-Mi gained an early appreciation for children's books and later went on to study Korean literature while at university. She writes children's stories based on the beautiful memories she had playing among the trees, flowers, and wind in the rolling hills and fields of her childhood. In 2010, she received the Nunnopi Children's Literary Award grand prize in short fiction, and in 2011, she received the MBC Korean Children's Book Award for long prose fiction. Her works include The Child with a 40,000-Year-Old Secret, Come Come Rap Come Come Songs!, The Lord of Leaf Castle, Boomerang, We Order A Family for You, Dreams on Hanji Paper and more.
(Japanese) 2010年ヌンノピ児童文学賞短編童話部門大賞、2011年MBC創作童話大賞長編童話部門大賞、2013年アルコ文学創作基金を受賞しました。
これまで書いた本は『葉っぱ城の城主』『ブーメラン』『冬至、行こう！』『私はシュガルだ』「『パンパン受けるギャグノート』『みみずく防具箱』などがあります。
Choi hee ok
Choi Hee-ok majored in Korean painting at the university and studied illustration in Hills, a writer’s community under Korea Illustration School. She illustrated Honey Puppy, Poop Puppy, Postbox, A Magic Pot, The Wenny Old Man, and Sharing a Meal at the Frog’s.
