- Overview
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Goblin, Give Me Courage is a tale that unfurls with the main character, who has trouble making friends, making a wish to a goblin asking for friends. The book shows readers the value of friendship as well as the lesson that one needs the courage to make friends.
- Book Intro
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Goblin, Give Me Courage
Dagam in Goblin, Give Me Courage was unable to make a friend even by the time she was in the second grade. One day, she comes across a goblin, who approached her after transforming into all kinds of shapes. Dagam spends a day during which all her wishes come true with the help of the goblin’s magical club. Later, Dagam finds out that it wasn’t because of magic, but because of her own initiative to take action. The lower grades in elementary school are a time when children begin building relationships on their own. They go beyond the relationships formed in the home since birth and begin forming relationships in society by making friends in peer groups. If you have trouble forming relationships, like Dagam or Gobly-B in the story, you can learn to bolster your courage.
- About the Author
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Jung Yuri
(English) Jung Yuri studied children’s literature in graduate school at Chung-Ang University. She fell deeply in love with the works of Roald Dahl and dreamed of becoming a writer of children’s stories. She dreams of creating a land of fairy tales where anyone can come and have fun. The books she has written include Coocoo Wants to Sleep; As One Pleases, In My Own Way; and Experts in Failure.
Hwang Sungsoon
(English) Hwang Sungsoon studied visual design at university. He has taught students at HILLS, an illustrator community, for a long time. He portrays the world of children with comical characters and unconstrained expressions. He wrote and illustrated the picture books Ta-da! A Baby Flower; The Elephant from the Flower; and Daddy’s Face. He also illustrated children’s books including The Fuss over the Teacher’s Letter, Every Word Is a Lie, and Beka Squid, and he illustrated the picture book, The Rhino Charges.
