- Overview
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This is a collection of imaginative, eerie, and touching short stories.
- Book Intro
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A child who groans with pain failing to say what he or she intends, a child who once has dreamed that their real mother and father may exist somewhere else, a child who eats their fingernails, toenails or even stones, and a child who wants to get away from continuous nagging for a moment. These seven stories are suggested to children.
Song Migyeong, a writer acknowledged for having the most provoking and experimental imagination in the world of Korean children's literature, has captured attention from not only children but also adults. This books contains stories of a fuss during a day brought about by a child who has bought a tongue that makes people disclose what they have in their minds without hesitation (I Bought a Tongue), the cat couple that visits a human child and confesses that they are their biological parents (The Cat Couple Who Came to Bring Me Back), the secret of a family who goes on a picnic with a lunch made up of seasoned stones and nails (The Child That Ate Stones), and a child sitting on the rock at the entrance of a village and waiting for her dead mother to come back (The Earth Is Round). The author lets children who are being held down by pressure despite the desire to speak feel liberated by giving them a tongue that makes people disclose what they have in their minds without hesitation for a day, presents cat parents that are more free and relaxed than human parents to children living under a number of restrictions, and cheers up children who fail to see others' wounds while being obsessed with their own wounds and do not take care of their own lives in a healthy way as they hide their wounds. By doing so, the author conveys the idea that trivial days gather to form a life in the same way as small beads gather to form stars and the universe. Children reinforce themselves and their lives by consistently breaking from one world and entering another one. By drawing the brightest and the most intense moments, the writer reveals how beautiful they are, offers consolation, and sends support.
This book consists of Imaginative, eerie, and touching short stories and pictures through bold and diverse techniques that can be hardly found in picture books.
- 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).
Ahn Kyoungmi
(Russian) Ан Кёнми закончила юридический факультет, затем работала консультантом по управлению, а после этого стала иллюстратором. Она закончила магистратуру по специальности «Искусство юллюстрации» в Кингстонском университете в Англии, и в 2015 году была выбрана иллюстратором года на Болонской ярмарке детской книги. Она нарисовала картинки к таким книгам как сборник сказок «Ребенок, жующий камень», сборник детских стихов «История о зеленом зайце», «Куда пропала моя буква v?» и т.д.
(English) Ahn Kyoungmi majored in Law at university and worked as a business consultant before becoming an illustrator. Ahn completed a master's degree in illustration at Kingston University, London, in the UK. She was selected as Illustrator of the Year in 2015 and 2018 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Ahn wrote Three Little Pigs Over the Bookshelf and illustrated Real Marae, 99 Ways Not to Be Friends and A Kid who Eats Stones, I Met a Green Rabbit, and Searching for V.
- Award
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Changwon City, 2015, The 5th Changwon Children’s Literary Award
- Selection
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Seoul City, 2016, One Library One Book Project selected book
Pyeongtaek City, 2016, One Library One Book Project selected book
South District of Incheon, 2016, The Book of the South District of Incheon
Pocheon City, 2016, One Library One Book Project selected book