- Overview
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This picture book personifies a dolmen in Buguen-ri, Ganghwa, registered on the UNESCO World Heritage, who vividly describes the life of the people in the Bronze Age and introduces relics and culture of the age.
- Book Intro
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A dolmen in Bugeun-ri, Ganghwa, which stood for several thousands of years, starts talking about the Bronze Age and a boy named Seok-geom to a loner boy who comes on a spring picnic. Seok-geom, a smart, talented boy, suggests adding a grip to undecorated pottery and forecasts the weather by observing stars. As he becomes a patriarch of his tribe, he plays the brilliant role of the leader while blocking the invasion of the enemy by making a fence, developing agriculture methods, and expanding the scale of the village. Such episodes of the story allow readers to take a close look at the lifestyle of the Bronze Age. In addition, the process of making dolmens, the reason why the ancient people made dolmens, and the usage of the dolmens are well melted into the story. In particular, the process of making a dolmen by driving a stake into the rock to split the rock and transferring a large rock helps solve curiosity about dolmens and realize the wisdom of the people in the ancient time.
The author hopes that this book could allow readers to easily get to know the history of the Bronze age and learn the wisdom of the ancestors who made dolmens.
- About the Author
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Kang Hyomi
(English) As a child, Kang Hyomi wanted to be a hero and save the planet. She couldn’t save the Earth and couldn’t be a hero, so she became a writer instead and writes stories about small heroes. She graduated from the Department of Creative Writing at Dongguk University, and has written books such as Common Siblings, Uncommon Diaries 1-3; Bbangidang vs. Guwoddeu; The End of Orangutan Humans; Champion of the Korean Language; A Cat’s Art Museum; My Neighborhood Laundry that Irons out Dreams; and the Chat Girl series.
Lee Kyoung-Kook
Lee Kyoung-Kook majored in furniture design and photography design at university. He was selected as Illustrator of the Year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2008. He illustrated Who Do You Look After?; Book Wriggles; When the Garbage Is Piled Up and Piled Up; and The Earth Is a Big Rock.
