- Overview
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This story delivers the message that people can still cooperate with others and enjoy their lives even though their life choices differ.
- Book Intro
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People Who Went to the Woods describes people who live with animals in the woods and don't use electricity or tap water so as not to make waste. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the main characters in this book recognize the danger of power plants and willingly embrace the inconvenience of using less electricity. Through them, readers can think about the environment, energy, and animal rights. On top of that, the courage of the characters to find their own happiness is impressively represented in this book. Illustrations that depict deep forests with unique and fascinating colors will capture the eyes of readers. The cartoon-like style of the book makes its content more abundant and interesting for readers.
- About the Author
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Ahn Ji-hye
ahn Ji-hye loves books and children and likes grasses and berries. Ahn recently learned that loving something does not only involve feeling that you like it, but also spending a lot of time on it. Ahn wants to spend more time reading and sharing books and thus come to understand them more deeply. She wishes to share more time with children, mountains, grasses, and berries, too. While creating this book, Ahn also started to think of living a life without any trash. Ahn has previously worked as an editor of children's books for a long time, and this is her first children's book that she has written herself.
Kim Ha-na
Kim Ha-na used to dream of becoming an independent person. Kim always viewed farmers as the most independent people she knew. Since she thought farmers who grew rice for everyone's daily diet were amazing, Kim moved to a place where she could become a farmer herself. While growing rice and meeting people nearby, Kim realized that cooperation must come before independence. The reason for this is that the lives of every person and every organism are all linked to each other. Kim prefers to spend half of her life producing her own meals and the other half observing and drawing the world in which she lives. Kim Ha-na has done illustrations for I Like My School, I Like My Teacher.
